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1999, 1998, 1997, 1996 and before
International Fides Service (Vatican News Service) stories for 1999*
December
25 - East Timor's Belo urges forgiveness in Christmas message
14- BURNTOUT? No! Burnt Out in East Timor!
(Maryknoll Sisters)*
13- Muslims in East Timor reduced from 80,000 to 200
9 - East Timor's Muslim minority assured of safe haven
December -Maryknoll Sisters, accompanying East
Timorese refugees in Australia*
November
27 - Weeping mourners pack Dili cathedral for funeral of martyred priests
15 - Filipino priest continues the work of "martyrs" in E Timorese town;
Timor's Belo says rights probe too late;
World
Council of Churches Round Table Meeting with Church from Indonesia and East
Timor*
13 - Forgive and look to the future, Belo urges mourners
October
31 - Belo appeals for militia to return to E Timor
28 - Belo demands Wiranto be tried for East Timor atrocities
11- Bishop Belo preaches gospel of "justice before forgiveness"
6 - Bishop Belo: the man who dared to say no to Suharto; Bishop Belo returns to vision "worse than hell"
September
28 - NCC:
East
Timorese Church Leader Calls For Safe Repatriation Of Refugees,
International Tribunal To Bring Killers To Justice*
25 - Bishop in western
Timor urges U.N. mandate for all of Timor
24 - Jewish Bulletin of Northern California: Area
Jewish Community Relations Council lobbies Clinton to cut ties to Indonesia*
Also: JCRC Statement*
23 - U.S. nun who hid
parents of independence leader says of militia: "Thank God they're lousy
shots"; World Alliance of Reformed Churches
writes to Indonesian*
president
23- 'New
York Will Pray' Cardinal phones nuns in East Timor making pledge of
support in crisis
21 - Bishop Belo urges UN
intervention in W Timor
20 - CNS: Priests, nuns
discovered alive
19 - American
Jewish Committee Condemns Violence In East Timor, Supports International
Peacekeeping Force.
17- "Stop the killing!" the Pope urges intervention and Churches offers solidarity*
16 - Letter to the President Regarding East Timor
from Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis*;
NCC:
The Rev. Larry D. Tankersley, Southern Asia Expert, Dies*
15- Statement On East Timor by the Central Commission of the Australian
Catholic Bishops' Conference*
14 - Presiding
Bishop's Statement on East Timor (U.S. Episcopal Church); Association
of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines: Letters to Kofi Annan
& Fellow Filipinos*
13 - UA 15/99 Rev
Francisco de Vasconcelos Ximenes confirmed killed; Rep. McGovern, remembering Frs. Madeira and Soares,
calls for rebuilding of East Timor; World Alliance of Reformed Churches
writes to Kofi Annan*
12 - Jesuit priest who
refused to leave refugees murdered in E Timor
10 - Systematic extermination
of priests and nuns; Bishop Belo accuses
Indonesia of genocide in E.Timor
9 - Pope's
Letter to East Timor's Bishops*; Priests and nuns the latest
victims of pro-Jakarta militias; Nun haunted by terror she
witnessed in Dili; Executive Council of Australian Jewry
Statement*
8 - CNS: Vatican
official joins calls for peacekeeping force in East Timor; Intervention or "We
are all going to die" Timorese bishops; Timorese massacred in a
church; "Ethnic cleansing will
empty E. Timor if no aid comes" Bishop Belo; East Timor - A Call to Prayer and Action
(A Statement from the Australian Bishops’ Committee for Justice, Development and Peace)* ;
NCC
Executive Board Appeals to President Clinton, United Nations to
Maintain Presence, End Atrocities in East Timor*
7 - UKCatholic Bishops -
Injustice that Cries out for Action
4 - Looking back and forward to the future in East Timor:
Letter from the Maryknoll Sisters' Community in
Darwin, Australia*
3 - Local Jesuit says there is a military manoeuvre to undermine stability*;
Letter from
World Council of Churches general secretary to UN secretary-general*
2 - NCC Concerned
About Ongoing Insecurity in East Timor, Asks U.S. to Press Indonesian
Government to Stop the Violence*
August
28 - Australian: Church on a tightrope of
neutrality in East Timor
25- CNS: E. Timorese bishop threatened by pro-Indonesia militias;
World Alliance of Reformed Churches
writes to Kofi Annan*
24 - NY Times Op-Ed by Bishop Bello: A Day of Reckoning in East Timor
23 - Bishop Belo threatened by
pro-Indonesia militias
17- CAFOD urges UK Govt to press for TNI withdrawal from Timor
14 - Bishop Belo urges Megawati to respect E.Timor vote
1- CNS: Official denies E. Timor church charging improper voter fees; CNS: Irish bishop says Indonesian loans should be tied to human rights
July - US Catholic Conference Alert on Congressional
Letter
July 24 - CNS: Violence
may delay E. Timor ballot, says visiting U.S. bishop; Timorese want independence: Belo
July 19 - CNS: East
Timor bishop urges U.S. Catholics not to forget poor
July 16 - Bishop Belo allowed to
leave Indonesia for U.S.
July 13 - Church group counts over
85,000 displaced Timorese
July 11 - Irish Bishop returns
from E Timor "Today no one is safe in East Timor."
June 23- July 1- Women to Women:
A solidarity visit to Indonesia and East Timor* (National Council of
Churches and Christian Conference of Asia)
June 19 - Prelate urges
international action for peaceful East Timor vote
June 18 - National Catholic Reporter interview
with Bishop Belo*
June 16 - Letter of solidarity to Bishop Belo and Bishop Nascimento of East Timor
from the bishops of Japan
June 11- 20: WCC Staff Visit to East Timor*
June 10 - Statement on East
Timor by Archbishop McCarrick, Chairman U.S. Catholic Conference (Committee On
International Policy) Also: Prelate urges international action for peaceful East Timor vote
June 4 - Reviews of From the Place of the Dead
: The Epic Struggles of Bishop Belo of East Timor, Arnold Cohen
June 2 - CNS: Belo
urges postponement of independence vote
May - Congregation Advocates for East Timor San
Francisco's First St. John's United Methodist Church
May 26 - Belo denies church wanted new ballot date
May 25 - SMH: Timor cry for help as UN flies in, Bishop Nascimento
May 22 - Catholic church in East Timor to be neutral in August vote: report
May 21 - Caritas forced to close. Bishop Belo says lay down arms
May 20 - East Timorese appeal to NY's Cardinal
O'Connor
May 15 - East Timorese factions to resume
church-mediated dialogue in Australia; Belo: 'Pro-Indon militia given drugs, wine and money'
May 14 - Priests and nuns march
in Dili in bid to resume peace
May 13 - A message from a nun in
East Timor
May 12 - Nobel laureate presides over peace service in Dili
May 10 - Christian Conference of Asia issued a call to prayer
for Asia*
May 7 - Catholic health-care and education continues despite violence*
May 1 - National Council of Churches Asks for Intervention in East Timor;
Bishop says Indonesian secret services back militias
April 29 - Catholic
church fears
slaughter of East Timor priests and nuns
April 28 - Bishop Belo says Indonesian
secret services back militias
April 24 - Belo seeks proper burial for Saturday's dead
April 22 - CNS: Massachusetts Catholic students adopt East Timor cause
April 21 - US Catholic Bishops
write Pentagon; U.S. National Council of Churches urgent message Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Secretary General Kofi Annan
April 17- East Timor bishop urges end to violence
; Attack on Bishop Belo's Convoy
April 16 - Bishop Belo calls for UN troops to save peace:
Interview by FIDES
April 10 - East Timor must not be new Kosovo, says Bishop Belo
April 9 - Australian nun's challenge to Foreign Minister: Act now to
stop Timor bloodshed
April 7 - Bishop Belo says more than 25 killed in church massacre;
Belo backs popular insurrection after 25 massacred;
Father Rafael on Liquica killings
March 20 - Portuguese envoy pays visit to East Timor's Roman Catholic bishops; Nobel laureate Belo urges UN mission for
E Timor
March 18 - Pro-Indonesia militia lift siege of Catholic mission
March 16 - Pro-Indonesia Militia surrounds convent, threatens to kill nuns
March 13: Interview with Belo
March 3 - Open Letter from the Carmelite Community of Maubara
"Considering that our place has become a refuge, we are worried that we will be
accused of harboring people..."
February 25 - Belo urges ET disarmament;
Archbishop Belo lives on borrowed time
February 24 - Bishop Belo's Reconciliation Speech
February 20 - Belo warns against rushing independence;
Belo seeks Australian help
February 12 - U.S. Churches call for UN monitors, disarming of civilians in East Timor
February 8 - Bishop Belo calls for UN Presence
February 4 - E. Timor Bishop Seeks Independence
January 27 - Belo welcomes autonomy offer, but calls for referendum
January 26 - Belo confirms arming of civilians
January 20 - Belo moves to foster
Muslim-Christian Brotherhood
1998
December 27 -East Timor bishop reluctant to meet Habibie
December 23 -
Australian Jews Support Self-Determination for East Timor*
December 17 - Bishop asks East Timorese to halt protests during holiday season
November - Resolution
from the Conference of the Australian, Asian and New Zealand Union for
Progressive Judaism
November 12 - Declaration by Australian Religious Leaders
October-November - US, Indonesia & East Timor Carmen Trotta, The Catholic
Worker
October 24-25 - Jewish Labor Committee
Resolution
October 18 - Belo will not participate in AIETD
October 15 - Belo calls for troop cut
October 13 - Bishop cautions East Timorese demonstrators to stay peaceful: report
September 21 - Bishop urges Indonesian military to come clean on troop deployment
September 22 - United Methodist News Service: Support continues for East Timor
September 14 - Belo calls for setting-up United Front
July 28 - United Methodists push House bills on East Timor
July 18 - Bishop urges calm
July 15 - Belo urges UN visit be delayed
July 3 - Bishop Belo returns with promises from Habibie*
July 2 - CAFOD urges EU to insist on troop withdrawal from East Timor
June 26 - Church sees Habibie’s proposal only as a
transitional possibility*
June 19 - Bishop Belo insists on release of resistance leader Xanana Gusmao
June 16 - Belo says population should wait 10-15 years for referendum
June 5 - U.S. Catholic Conference: Letters to Bishop Belo and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
June 2 - Interview with Bishop Belo
February 20 - Ramos-Horta
focus of Lutheran Peace Prize*
February 7 - Bishop Belo says situation is still critical
December 5 - Statement
by Cardinal Hume to Mark the 22nd Anniversary of the Invasion of East
Timor*
October 16 - Methodists
and East Timor
September 19 - NCC
Interview with East Timorese Church Leader Rev. Arlindo Marcal*
September 2 - NCC delegation
witnesses struggle in East Timor*
July - Murder in the cathedral - assassination attempt on Bishop
Belo (Inside Indonesia)*
July - A Time for
Justice (speech by Bishop Belo to CAFOD)
July - Lutheran
World Federation Statement on East Timor*
June - Resolution
of Central Conference of American Rabbis
June 20 - East Timor Nobel laureate, in S.F., speaks out for Jews,
Jewish Bulletin of Northern California*
March 4 - Letter to Congressman Frank R. Wolf
from Bishop Theodore E. McCarrick
January 10c - Religion class studies problems, joins protests*
1997- The
1996 Nobel Peace Prize for Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos Horta*
(Irwin Abrams)
1997 - Episcopal Church Resolution to "Extend Greetings to Bishop Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor"*
December 10, 1996 - Bishop Belo's Nobel Acceptance Speech; Ramos-Horta on role of church in his Nobel speech
November 15, 1996 - Statement on East Timor (Catholic Bishops of England and Wales)
October 22, 1996 - Indonesian
Government Press Statement attacking award*
October 14, 1996 - Interview With Bishop Belo: They Keep Us Like Slaves"*
Der Spiegel
October 11, 1996 - Belo and Ramos-Horta Share 1996 Nobel Peace Prize;
ETAN on Nobel Prize
March 1996 - UK Cardinal Etchegaray visits East Timor*
November 1995 - Bishop Belo wins CAFOD award*
December 31, 1994 - Biography of Bishop Belo* by Bishop Hilton Deakin
July 27, 1994 - U.S. Bishops Express Solidarity With East Timor Church
July 26, 1994 - Statement on East Timor Catholic Bishop Daniel P. Reilly
July 13, 1994 - East Timor Catholic Church
on East Timor Nowadays by Bishop Belo
July 13, 1994 -
UCAN:
Santa Cruz
Incident Prisoners Moved To Java Prior To U.N. Visit*
June 1994 - California- Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church Resolution*
October 12, 1989 - Holy Mass in Tasi-Toli, Dili, Homily of John Paul II*
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