•Cardinals Red-robed cardinals were expected today to pick a date for the conclave to elect a new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, following the death of Pope Francis. Dozens of so-called “Princes of the Church” met at 9:00 am (0700 GMT) at the Vatican, with speculation growing that the secretive election process could […]...
Pope Francis was buried in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, his favorite church in Rome, yesterday afternoon, after a two-hour funeral service held in St. Peter’s Square, the Holy See said. Earlier, some 150,000 people bid farewell to the pope from the roadside as his funeral procession passed through central Rome, according to estimates [&he...
•US President Donald Trump (C) and First Lady Melania Trump (C/R) stand alongside leaders as they watch the arrival of the coffin Tens of thousands of mourners and world leaders including US President Donald Trump packed St Peter’s Square today for the funeral of Pope Francis, the champion of the poor and the Catholic Church’s […]
•Akpabio in Rome for Pope Francis’ burial Senate President Godswill Akpabio and other members of Nigeria’s official delegation have arrived in Vatican City ahead of the funeral of Pope Francis, scheduled for today. Akpabio is leading the five-member high-level delegation constituted by President Bola Tinubu to represent Nigeria at the burial r...
Godswill Akpabio The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, will lead Nigeria’s delegation to Vatican City to attend the burial of Pope Francis tomorrow. In a statement today, presidential adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, revealed that the five-member delegation was constituted by President Bola Tinubu. Other members of the dele...
•Late Pope Francis Pope Francis final journey to mother earth will begin today when former Archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony close his coffin – despite being stripped of all his administrative and public duties in 2013 after covering up a child sex abuse scandal. The coffin bearing the body of Pope Francis is […]
•Swiss Guards (L) and members of the clergy (R) stand next to coffin of the late Pope Francis (C) inside St Peter’s Basilica yesterday The public can begin visiting Pope Francis’s tomb at the Roman basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore “as early as Sunday morning”, Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, announced. The funeral of Pope Francis, […]...
•Peter Obi (2nd Left) Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, was spotted at one of the funeral services organised for the late Pope Francis. Pope Francis, aged 88, took his last breath on Easter Monday. The Vatican subsequently announced that he would be buried on died on Saturday, reports […]
•Pallbearers, next to Swiss Guards, carry the coffin of the late Pope Francis as it is transported to St Peter’s Basilica Pope Francis’s coffin began its transfer to St Peter’s Basilica today for three days of lying in state, with thousands of well-wishers gathering to pay their respects to the leader of the world’s Catholics […]...
A number of global leaders have announced they will travel to Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, which is likely to draw huge crowds in the square in front of St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Here is a list of the expected VIP guests: US President Donald Trump said he and his wife […]
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