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How East Timor's turnout to see Pope Francis compares with other papal Masses

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Summary
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74% Informative

East Timor has been overwhelmingly Catholic ever since Portuguese explorers first arrived in the early 1500s .

Pope Francis’ Mass in Manila drew an estimated 6 million people — a record that still stands more than a decade later — to Rizal Park and surrounding areas in 2015 .

In 1979 , St. John Paul II returned to his hometown of Krakow for his first visit to Poland after his elevation to the papacy.

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VR Score

84

Informative language

88

Neutral language

58

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

50

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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no external sources

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