East Timor, People's Quest for Self-Determination

New World Outlook May-June, 1998

by Rebecca Asedillo

Mother and child, East Timor

A United Methodist missionary and Peace-With-Justice Educator serving with the National Council of Churches' Southern Asia Office looks at Indonesia's annexation of East Timor.

Picture of Rev. Marcal

Rebecca Asedillo traveled to East Timor with a delegation from the National Council of Churches to meet with Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Ramos Horta in 1996) and a Protestant leader, the Reverend Arlindo Marcal (above).


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