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7 days ago

World bids farewell to Pope Francis with pilgrims and the powerful among 400,000 at funeral

Applause rings out as late pontiff’s wooden coffin carried from altar of St Peter’s Basilica for open-air ceremony

Pope Francis has been eulogised as “a pope among the people, with an open heart towar…

Pilgrims and the powerful come together for Pope Francis’s funeral

Applause rings out as late pontiff’s wooden coffin carried from altar of St Peter’s Basilica for open-air ceremony

Pope Francis’s funeral – live



Pope Francis has been eulogised as “a pope among the p…

12 days ago

Pope Francis obituary

Leader of the Catholic church who pushed for social and economic justice, and an urgent response to the climate crisis

The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope in March 2013 was unexpected, even …

70 days ago

Russell Watson looks back: ‘My success felt like a wave that kept rolling. Until it didn’t’

The classical singer on scrimping and saving for his first guitar, being diagnosed with two brain tumours and getting back to music

Born in Salford in 1966, Russell Watson is the UK’s bestselling clas…

3 months ago

Auschwitz's Death Wall: How the Nazis shot thousands of inmates in front of structure - before Polish Pope John Paul II knelt in the same spot and prayed for peace

It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. Above: The wall today and John Paul II in 1979.

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