The world mourns Pope Francis

22/04/2025 6 min
The world mourns Pope Francis

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The world has been paying tribute to the memory of Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope and a transformative figure in the modern Catholic Church.He had suffered from double pneumonia earlier this year and died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. His death came as a shock following his appearance in St Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday, where he greeted crowds from an open-air popemobile.

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