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Article: East Timor activists win Nobel Prize. (News)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 30, 1996
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When a Roman Catholic bishop and an exiled political activist from East Timor were chosen to receive the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, world attention was focused on a long-simmering but long-ignored dispute - the struggle by primarily Catholic East Timor to gain its independence from Indonesia, the worlds largest Muslim nation. Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, 48, the first Catholic prelate ever to receive the prestigious peace prize, will share the $1.2 million award with Jose Ramos-Horta, 51, who served as East Timor's foreign minister prior to Indonesia's annexation of the onetime Portuguese colony in 1976 Ramos-Horta now lives in Australia.
Both Belo and ...