QLD: East Timor Bishop in Brisbane to launch aid appeal

AAP General News (Australia)
02-23-1999
QLD: East Timor Bishop in Brisbane to launch aid appeal

Nobel Peace Prize winner and East Timorese spiritual leader, Catholic Bishop CARLOS BELO,
will visit Brisbane in the lead-up to Easter to launch an appeal run in churches.

Bishop BELO is due to arrive in Brisbane on Saturday to launch Caritas Australia's Project
Compassion Lenten appeal after celebrating Mass at St Stephen's Cathedral on Sunday morning.

Caritas Australia, the international Catholic aid bureau, receives funds collected in
Catholic Churches for aid projects during the six-week Lent period which started on February …