When the newly elected Pope Francis stepped onto the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in 2013 to greet the crowd,…
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Vatican says about 250,000 mourners filed through St Peter’s Basilica during a three-day lying in state. Tens of thousands of…
Read More »Vatican City – Pope Francis’s funeral will be held in the Vatican on Saturday at 10am local time (8:00 GMT),…
Read More »Three days of public viewing begin before the pontiff’s funeral on Saturday. Pope Francis’s coffin has been taken to Saint…
Read More »Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, has died aged 88, the…
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Read More »Francis was admitted to Rome hospital on February 14 with a severe respiratory infection. Pope Francis will be discharged from…
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