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There are over 900,000 Catholics in East Timor, a legacy of its status as a former Portuguese colony. Since its independence from Indonesia , East Timor became only the second predominantly Catholic country in Asia (after the Phillippines) - over 90% of ther population is Catholic. The country is divided into two dioceses.