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Belo, Bishop Carlos Summary
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(b. 1948), Peace advocate and Nobel laureate. Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo is known as an outspoken fighter for peace and reconciliation in East Timor. Born on 3 February 1948 near Baucau, East Timor, and educated at missionary schools in Timor,...
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Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo SDB, , GCL (born February 3, 1948) is a Roman Catholic bishop who received, together with José Ramos Horta, the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, for their work "towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East...


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National Catholic Reporter
A courageous voice calling for help in East Timor. (Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo)(Editorial)
10/11/1996: 652 words, approx. 2 pages
Belo may be assassinated as was El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero, because of speaking out, this time against the Indonesian oppression of the East Timorese. There is little global response; even Pope John Paul II has not fully supported the cause. Belo should receive...
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National Catholic Reporter
E. Timor bishop, exiled activist win Nobel. (1996 peace prize to Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos Horta)
10/25/1996: 654 words, approx. 2 pages
East Timor was annexed by Indonesia in 1975 and it has endured oppression since then. Belo refuses both to reject the prize and support Indonesia, and denounce Horta for his different opinions. Horta has worked for East Timor liberation since 1975. Belo is the...
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Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975
10/12/2007: 292 words, approx. 1 pages
Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:_ 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change._ 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded._ 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei,...
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Nobel prize winner testifies about Timor
3/26/2007: 346 words, approx. 1 pages
Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, whose resistance to Indonesian rule in East Timor won him a Nobel prize, described Monday how Jakarta-backed militias burned down churches and killed priests after his tiny nation's independence vote.He told the Commission on Truth and Friendship, established by both...
 


 

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