Belo

American  

[bel-oh, be-loo] / ˈbɛl oʊ, ˈbɛ lʊ /

noun

1. Carlos Felipe Ximenes, born 1948, East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop: Nobel Peace Prize 1996.

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Example Sentences

Nery, who lives in Belo Horizonte, capital city of southeastern Brazil's Minas Gerais state, and has never been to India, says she searched on Google to understand what was going on.

From BBC

Celia Belo, who has two children, said she reduced her work hours in the summer holidays.

From BBC

Protections like these could protect ecosystems in the examined cases of the tribunal, including in Brazil where a firm called Belo Sun has proposed the development of the country’s largest open-pit gold mine, and in regions affected by copper, silver, and other metals mining throughout Ecuador.

From Salon

He sat out the semi-final of the 2014 World Cup in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's successful 2019 Copa America campaign and two out of five games in the 2022 World Cup.

From BBC

A Vatican spokesman earlier said the Church had been aware of the case against Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo in 2019 and had imposed disciplinary measures in 2020, including restrictions on Bishop Belo’s movements and a ban on voluntary contact with minors.

From BBC