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Bishop who won Nobel for work in Timor accused of sex abuse

FILE - East Timor's Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, left, and Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres look aprehensive after a meeting at the Prime Minister's residence in Lisbon, on Sept. 11, 1999. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Gael Cornier, File) FILE - East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao, right, welcomes the country's influential Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo in Gusmao's palace in Dili, on Jan. 13, 2004. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File) FILE - Nobel peace laureate Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo leaves after a Commission on Truth and Friendship hearing in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 26, 2007. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File) FILE - Nobel Peace Prize laureates East Timor bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, left, and activist Jose Ramos-Horta wave upon their arrival at the Oslo townhall for the Nobel ceremony, on Dec. 10, 1996. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Jon Eeg, File) FILE - East Timor's Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo leads a Mass in Baucau hospital, 128 kilometers (80 miles) east of the capital Dili, East Timor, on July 26, 2003. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File) FILE - East Timor's Roman Catholic Bishop and Nobel Prize laureate Carlos Ximenes Belo prays in a ceremony to pay last respects to the former head of the UN Transition Authority in East Timor, Sergio Vieira De Mello in Dili, on Aug. 23, 2003. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File) FILE - East Timor's Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, center, holds hands with other priests during the Sunday's morning mass at Lisbon's Salesian religious order's church, on Sept. 12, 1999. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Gael Cornier, File) FILE - Nobel Peace Prize laureate, East Timor bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo displays his certificate and medal during the Nobel ceremony at the Oslo townhall, on Dec. 10, 1996. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Bjoern Sigurdsoen, File) FILE - Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo of East Timor, sings along with participants at the National Catholic Gathering for Jubilee Justice held on the UCLA Campus in Los Angeles, on July 17, 1999. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Neil Jacobs, File)
Bishop who won Nobel for work in Timor accused of sex abuse