The Prime Minister, Dr. Rui Maria de Araújo, participated at the Conference “The Church and its Timorese face”, on April 9th in the Lahane Palace, in Díli. The Conference was organized by the Dom Jaime Garcia Goulart Institute of Philosophy and Theology. In the immediate aftermath of the funeral celebrations of the Most Reverend Dom Alberto Ricardo da Silva, the Prime Minister, in his address, recalled Dom Alberto stating that he was “a man of the Church, a man of his country” and “a face that history will never forget and that represents so well the role that the Timorese Church played in the struggle for National Liberation”. (10 April 2015, Government of Timor-Leste)