People display a East Timor national flag to show it to Pope Francis taking off with his flight from Díli, East Timor and bound to Singapore, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. The Vatican says some 600,000 people have attended Pope Francis' Mass in East Timor, or nearly half the country's population, on Tuesday on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed in 1989 during the nation's fight for independence from Indonesia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)