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.
Dozens of leaders and dignitaries – including Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Prince William – have joined 40,000 mourners in St Peter’s Square
Trump, Prince William, and other leaders paid their respects to Pope Francis’ coffin inside the basilica before the service began
Trump and Zelensky met before the funeral, Zelensky’s spokesman says, as negotiations to end the war in Ukraine continue
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.
In between the two readings will be a responsorial Psalm.
