Msgr. Pena, Undersecretary for General Affairs of the State Department of the Holy See, concluded his visit to East Timor on 23 September. The archbishop expressed satisfaction with the law recently approved by the country to facilitate the entry of missionaries to Timor Oriental.
(Vatican News Network)Monsignor Pena, Undersecretary for General Affairs of the Department of State of the Holy See, concluded his five-day visit to East Timor on 23 September with the opportunity to inaugurate the new Embassy of the Embassy of the Holy See in the capital of the country, Dili . East Timor.
On the last day of his visit, Mgr. Pena met the President of the National Assembly, Aniceto Guterres, and representatives of various political parties. He expressed his gratitude for the hospitality received in East Timor and expressed his appreciation for the recently passed laws that would facilitate the entry of missionaries into the country. A representative of the East Timorese parliament stressed the importance of Catholicism in the country’s history. East Timor and the Philippines are Asian countries with a Catholic majority.
The archbishop arrived in East Timor on 19 September and was welcomed by the country’s president, Josè Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1996. On the same day, Archbishop Pena attended the inauguration ceremony of the local World Peace Human Brotherhood Center. The center was inspired by the document on human brotherhood signed in 2019 by Pope Francis and the Great Imam of Azhar, Taib.
On 20 September the Archbishop participated in a seminar on the document on human brotherhood held at the Catholic University of East Timor, and in the afternoon he presided over the inauguration of the new building of the Embassy of the Holy See. On 21 September he visited the Center for the Poor Childhood run by the Canossian Sisters of Charity, the United Seminary of the Diocese of Sts. Peter and Paul, the Santa Cruz Cemetery and the East Timor Resistance Museum.
On 22 September, Bishop Pena met the Prime Minister of East Timor, Taur Matan Ruak, who visited the monument dedicated to Saint John Paul II in Tassidolu before presiding in the cathedral of Dili. On October 12, 1989, Pope Wojtywa celebrated mass there. On 23 September, Bishop Pena met the representatives of the National Assembly and returned to Rome.
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