Pope Francis' Mass in East Timor draws 600,000 people

TASITOLU, East Timor: Thirty-five years after St. John Paul II prayed during the nation's fight for independence from Indonesia, an estimated 600,000 people packed the same seaside park this week for Pope Francis' final Mass.

The turnout was a testament to the overwhelmingly Catholic Southeast Asian country and the esteem with which its people hold the church, which stood by the Timorese in their traumatic battl