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How does the huge crowd for the pope’s Mass in East Timor compare to others?

TASITOLU, East Timor (AP) — The estimated crowd of 600,000 people Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor is nearly half of the small Southeast Asian country’s population. The event was held Tuesday on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed during the nation’s fight for independence from Indonesia. Other papal Masses have drawn crowds of millions of people in more populous countries, but the crowd in East Timor was believed to biggest for a papal event ever in terms of the proportion of the population.

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