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 Martinho da Costa Lopes - Wikipedia
Da Costa Lopes wuchs während einer Zeit auf, als die Katholische Kirche in der Kolonie Portugiesisch-Timor eng mit der Kolonialregierung zusammenarbeitete, weniger aber eine Verbindung zur Bevölkerung hatte.
Da Costa Lopes erklärte: „Ich empfinde es als unbändiges Bedürfnis, der ganzen Welt von dem Völkermord in Timor zu erzählen, damit wenn wir sterben, zumindest die Welt weiss, dass wir im Stehen starben.“ Im selben Jahr verfügte er, dass die am weitesten verbreitete einheimische Sprache Tetum zur offiziellen Sprache der katholischen Liturgie in Osttimor wurde.
Da Costa Lopes berichtete weiter von den extremen Hungersnöten in den Umsiedlungslagern und unterstützte seine Priester, die der Bevölkerung beistehen wollten.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martinho_da_Costa_Lopes   (654 words)

  
 Bishop kept Timor secrets to himself - smh.com.au
Among them was Martinho da Costa Lopes, a Timorese priest who became Ribeiro's vicar-general, and then acting bishop, after his 1977 retirement.
Lopes told Lennox that Ribeiro was slapped in the face by an Indonesian officer on one occasion and that his bishop's ring was torn from his hand because Indonesia would never recognise a white bishop.
With his retirement Martinho da Costa Lopes became acting bishop of Dili, the first native-born East Timorese to occupy the post.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/28/1030508074105.html   (633 words)

  
 Msgr. da Costa Lopes, East Timor Cleric, 72 - New York Times
Martinho da Costa Lopes, who was vicar general of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor when Indonesian forces invaded the predominantly Roman Catholic enclave in 1975, died last Wednesday at Egas Moniz Hospital in Lisbon.
Monsignor da Costa Lopes was appointed as papal administrator, or acting bishop, of East Timor in 1977 but was replaced in 1983 by the Vatican after Indonesian authorities complained that his sermons were inciting nationalist sentiment.
Ordained a priest in 1948, after graduating from the Roman Catholic seminary in Macao, he was an outspoken critic of human rights violations in his native East Timor.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5DE133BF936A35750C0A967958260   (182 words)

  
 fa06i
Martinho da Costa Lopes: "They are Timorese killing Timorese, while the bapak (Indonesian) (looks on) laughing and rubbing his hands together with joy" (letter, 14.2.84).
Two militia leaders, Cancio Lopes and Eurico Guterres, were received by President Habibie and senior ABRI officials (The South China Morning, 17.2.99).
At the end of the two-hour meeting with Xanana Gusmao, Domingos das Dores Soares, President of the FPDK, announced "we are beginning a new era for East Timor".
homepage.esoterica.pt /~cdpm/fa06i.htm   (1277 words)

  
 Crisis Magazine
Da Costa Lopes’s activism became so troubling to the Indonesians that they asked the Vatican to remove him.
The Vatican complied, and da Costa Lopes was exiled to Portugal in 1983 and died there in 1991.
Gregorio da Cunha Saldanha was one of the leaders of the march and now sits as a member of parliament in the free East Timor.
www.crisismagazine.com /september2004/rogers.htm   (3006 words)

  
 The Religion Report - 30 August 2000  - East Timors Fogotten Father
Marking the first anniversary of the Independence Referendum in Timor we take a look at the extraordianry life of Dom Martinho da Costa Lopes.We also look at the latest elections in Mexico in the state of Chiapa's and, the Catholic Primate of Australia, Cardinal Edward Clancy on the state and conscience.
And to mark the anniversary, we are going to look at one of the forgotten heroes of that struggle, Dom Martino da Costa Lopes, the priest who first raised the plight of the Timorese people before the world, and who was eventually silenced by the geo-political interests of Australia and the Vatican.
Rowena Lennox: As a child he was a prodigy, and he was the second illegitimate son of a Timorese man who was a nurse, and he was educated by the priests in Timor, and picked out at a young age by the Bishop of Macao in Dili to become a priest.
www.abc.net.au /rn/religionreport/stories/2000/169312.htm   (4330 words)

  
 Concelho de Praia da Vitória
Jose Melo Machado da Rocha, Doze Ribeiras married Angelica Conceicao Gomes Martinho of Santa Barbara.
Surnames: Almeirinho, Alves, Barreto, Camara, Corvelho, Costa, Dias, Fagundes, Fernandes, Garcia, Gonçalves, Pereira, Silveira.
Surnames: Ávila, da Cruz Silveira Machado, Oliveira Leal, Silva.
www.dholmes.com /master-list/azores/pvitoria.html   (1139 words)

  
 Martinho da Costa Lopes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This new and indigenous church achieved, during these six years, a numerical growth which centuries of work by Portuguese missionaries had never managed in East Timor.
New York Times: Death of da Costa Lopes
Rowena Lennox, Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes, ISBN 1-85649-833-6
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martinho_da_Costa_Lopes   (769 words)

  
 Whitlam role in ousting East Timor Catholic leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Former prime minister Gough Whitlam, long condemned for his tacit approval of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975, is said to have been instrumental in the removal of Church leader Dom Martinho da Costa Lopes.
Monsignor Lopes had written to Australia in late 1981, warning of another impending famine.
Indonesian authorities admitted to only 70 being killed, while Monsignor Costa Lopes of East Timor's Catholic church said the death toll was closer to500.
www.cathnews.com /news/601/78.html   (218 words)

  
 TAPOL, the Indonesian Human Rights Campaign
Many of those who took part returned home too weak and exhausted to be able to prepare their fields or gardens for cultivation, leading to food shortages in 1981 and 1982.
It was this operation that prompted the head of the Catholic Church of East Timor, Mgr Martinho da Costa Lopes, to start protesting to the military authorities and smuggle out information to church contacts abroad.
Setting a precedent that was to be followed by his successor, Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, the Catholic leader’s protests precipitated a row with the Indonesian authorities which led to his removal from East Timor by the Vatican in 1983.
tapol.gn.apc.org /news/files/sp_etimor9905.htm   (2050 words)

  
 Development and Peace response to a Globe and Mail article
It seems to me that our very presence in Ottawa 16 years ago with representatives of the author’s group, the Indonesia-East Timor program, shows that we, too, were playing a front line role in defending the East Timorese long before it became politically fashionable to do so.
In fact, we helped to organize the visit by Monsignor Martinho da Costa Lopes mentioned in the article.
We are also close allies of his successor as head of East Timor’s Catholic community, exiled East Timor Bishop, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Carlos F. Belo.
www.devp.org /anglais/communiquesab-a.htm   (375 words)

  
 Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life Ofmartinho Da Costa Lopes (Select Books)
This is a moving portrait of the late Martinho da Costa Lopes, Catholic priest and East Timorese national hero.
Born in East Timor in 1918, he edited the church newspaper Seara until it was closed by the Portuguese secret police.
After the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975, Dom Martinho became the first person to speak out publicly against the abuses by the occupational forces.
www.selectbooks.com.sg /getTitle.cfm?SBNum=26743   (131 words)

  
 Costa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Costa can be a family name (see below).
Costa Cruises, a leading cruise company in Europe
There are places that have the name Costa (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish for coast):
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Costa   (335 words)

  
 Bishop quits amid talk of Vatican rift - theage.com.au
He was 37 when he was appointed Bishop of Dili, to replace Dom Martinho Lopes da Costa, who had taken over as acting bishop when the last Portuguese bishop of East Timor was repatriated after the 1975 Indonesian invasion.
Bishop Costa's nationalist sermons infuriated the Indonesians and in 1983 the Vatican bowed to Jakarta's pressure to remove him.
Bishop Belo was expected to be more malleable but he took a similar stand in defence of East Timorese rights.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/11/27/1038386202478.html   (537 words)

  
 I REMEMBER ...East Timor
for East Timor, Monsignor Martinho da Costa Lopes.
Indonesian pressure on the Vatican to remove Lopes from office.
Lopes arrived in Canada he told us that from 1975 until 1983 he had only
www.peace.ca /iremember.htm   (2317 words)

  
 Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 00024637
Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Fighting spirit of East Timor : the life of Martinho da Costa Lopes / by Rowena Lennox.
Rowena Lennox makes a living as a freelance journalist and book editor.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Lopes, Martinho da Costa, 1918-1991, East Timor Biography, Catholic Church East Timor Clergy Biography
www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/hol058/00024637.html   (124 words)

  
 The Catholic Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Church has become a major focus of opposition to the Indonesian occupation.
Bishop Belo's predecessor, Martinho da Costa Lopes worked tirelessly to tell the outside world about the suffering of the East Timorese, describing the military campaigns and the efects of famine.
He was forced to retire early under pressure from the Pro- Nuncio in Jakarta.
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~stu/fret/bulletin/church.html   (150 words)

  
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From 1975, the residence of the then Bishop of Dili, Dom Martinho da Costa Lopes, was full of girls seeking refuge from the soldiers.
As Dom Martinho tells his story, before he was replaced by the Vatican for his outspoken criticisms of the Indonesian occupation forces:
It has been alleged that the two female detainees, Celina da Costa, 20, and Olga Quintao Amaral, 19, had their clothes torn and were severely beaten and raped by members of the Indonesian military.(23)
www.xs4all.nl /~peace/pubeng/pdm/22tag.html   (3454 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes: Books: Rowena Lennox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes (Hardcover)
Martinho da Costa Lopes was the first Timorese leader of the East Timorese Catholic Church.
www.amazon.com /Fighting-Spirit-East-Timor-Martinho/dp/1856498328   (673 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Fighting spirit of East Timor : the life of Martinho da Costa Lopes
Find in a Library: Fighting spirit of East Timor : the life of Martinho da Costa Lopes
Fighting spirit of East Timor : the life of Martinho da Costa Lopes
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 Dili A to Z text only
Medication is supplied by Caritas Norway and the programme works in conjunction with the Health Ministry (Ministério Da Saúde Dili Hospital refers patients to the BPC TB programme.
Ten beds at the clinic are reserved for patients with TB too sick for outpatient treatment or for those coming from distant areas.
Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes Rowena Lennox Pluto Press/Zed.
bairopiteclinic.tripod.com /diliatoz.htm   (10769 words)

  
 Editorials from America Vol. 181, July to Dec. 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For during the Indonesian occupation, the number of Catholics in East Timor quadrupled, growing from 30 percent of the population to 90 percent.
The Catholic Church is the only public arena not controlled by the invaders, and the only local institution that, under the leadership of Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, S.D.B., and his predecessor, Monsignor Martinho da Costa Lopes, has provided a degree of protection to the local people.
East Timor's offshore oil and natural gas deposits ought to be making it as wealthy as the Sultanate of Brunei.
www.americamagazine.org /editorials/Edsvol181.htm   (14589 words)

  
 Estafeta - Spring 2003 (East Timor Action Network/U.S.)
Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes by Rowena Lennox 260 pp.
Biography of Martinho da Costa Lopes, the first Timorese leader of the East Timorese Catholic Church.
And the first person to speak out publicly within East Timor about abuses perpetrated by the Indonesian occupation.
www.etan.org /estafeta/03/spring03/default.htm   (436 words)

  
 Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Kohen, Arnold S. Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes
Martin, Elizabeth A. Self-Determination in East Timor: The United Nations, the Ballot, and International Intervention
Depois das Lágrimas: A reconstrução de Timor Leste
www.easttimor-reconciliation.org /bibliography.htm   (642 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00024637
Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00024637
Publisher description for Fighting spirit of East Timor : the life of Martinho da Costa Lopes / by Rowena Lennox.
His story is a unique and accessible behind-the-scenes account of East Timor.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol051/00024637.html   (173 words)

  
 East Timor - Religious pages
New York's Cardinal O'Connor meets with East Timorese in May 1999.
From left: Constancio Pinto, North American Representative CNRT; Vincente Soares Faria, a teacher at the University of East Timor; Cardinal O'Connor; Francisco de Jesus da Costa, survivor of the Liquica massacre.
Church Must Work With State For The People (interview with Bishop Alberto Ricardo da Silva, May 2004)
etan.org /etreligious   (454 words)

  
 East Timor Sebastiao da Silva Foundation Publications
Sebastião Aparício da Silva Project and Instituto Nacional de Linguística, Universidade Nacional Timor Lorasa'e, 2004
A comprehensive description of the national language of East Timor, easy to follow and free of unnecessary linguistic jargon.
* Portuguese Colonialism in East Timor: The Early Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes (Rowena Lennox)
www.asianlang.mq.edu.au /INL/pubs.html   (1945 words)

  
 Reports
The Church of East Timor understood our mission in a clear and unequivocal way.
We wish to pay special tribute here today to Bishop D. Martinho da Costa Lopes for the courage and strength with which he always defended our Homeland and identity.
Together we liberated our Homeland; together we will defend our Homeland!
www.timoraid.org /v1/timortoday/news/reports_004.htm   (1557 words)

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