Editing Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (section)

==Sexual abuse allegations ==

On 28 September 2022, ''[[De Groene Amsterdammer]]'', a Dutch magazine, reported that two men alleged Belo sexually abused them and others as children in East Timor. The magazine's research indicated that Belo sexually abused male children before and during his tenure as a bishop, both in Fatumaca and Díli.<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 30 September 2022 | url = https://www.groene.nl/artikel/what-i-want-is-apologies | work = De Groene Amsterdammer | date = 28 September 2022 | first = Tjitske | last = Lingsma | language = nl | title = 'What I want is apologies' }}</ref> The next day a Vatican spokesperson confirmed that Church officials had imposed disciplinary sanctions against Belo in 2020 less than a year after receiving allegations in 2019 about his behavior in East Timor years earlier. These included restrictions on Belo's movements and the exercise of his ministry as well as prohibiting him from having contact with children. He was also forbidden to have any contact with East Timor. The Vatican "modified and reinforced" its disciplinary actions in 2021. Its spokesman said that Belo accepted these rules in both years.<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 30 September 2022 | url = https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/29/vatican-affirms-sanctioning-nobel-winner-bishop-over-sex-scandal | work = Al Jazeera | date = 29 September 2022 | title = Vatican affirms sanctioning Nobel-winning bishop over sex scandal }}</ref><ref name=horowitz>{{cite news | newspaper = New York Times | access-date = 30 September 2022 | date = 29 September 2022 | first = Jason | last = Horowitz | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/world/asia/vatican-bishop-belo.html | title = Vatican Disciplined Nobel Laureate Bishop Over Child Abuse Claims }}</ref>