Editing Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (section)

==Later activity==
Following his resignation Belo travelled to Portugal where he said he underwent medical treatment for cancer.<ref name=horowitz/> 

By the beginning of 2004, there were repeated calls for him to return to East Timor to run for president. In May 2004 he told Portuguese state-run television [[RTP (Portugal)|RTP]] that he had "decided to leave politics to politicians". 

Belo started working in the Diocese of Maputo in Mozambique in June 2004 and described his role as "assistant parish priest": "I do pastoral work by teaching catechism to children, giving retreats to young people. I have descended from the top to the bottom." He told an interviewer that he had left Díli because the new political situation required new leadership that could undertake the work of reconciliation without the associations he had with earlier battles. He said he had chosen Mozambique because he did not think he could learn another language and that he had consulted his Salesian superior and Cardinal [[Crescenzio Sepe]], who headed the Curia department responsible for missionary territory. He planned to stay for a year.<ref>{{cite interview | access-date = 1 October 2022 | url = https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/2005/02/03/i-am-now-an-assistant-priest-bishop-belo-says&post_id=2060 | work = UCA News | title = 'I Am Now An Assistant Priest,' Bishop Belo Says | date = 2 February 2005 }}</ref> In 2024 ''The New York Times'' reported that Belo was "said to be working as a priest in Mozambique".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wee |first1=Sui-Lee |title=Pope Goes to East Timor, Where Scandal Shadows His Church’s Heroic Past |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/world/asia/pope-east-timor-legacy.html |access-date=9 September 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=9 September 2024}}</ref>