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The funeral of Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, April 21, aged 88, is taking place in the Vatican
About 140,000 people have gathered in St Peter’s Square and the nearby streets for Pope Francis’s funeral, Italian police report.
That includes 40,000 people in St Peter’s Square itself, which is almost at capacity.
Presidents, royalty and dignitaries including Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Prince William bade farewell to Pope Francis at his funeral.
This funeral brings together some of the world’s most powerful people with some of the most marginalised
Pope Francis’s funeral mass includes a reading from the Acts of the Apostles (read by Kielce Gussie, a journalist from Vatican News), followed by a second reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians.
Source: BBC
