Proceedings began at 10am local time (9am BST) with the service taking place at St Peter's Basilica in front of 200,000 ...

As the historic funeral of Pope Francis played out in front of around 200,000 mourners, the Cardinal leading the service ...

Pope Francis was “a pope among the people, with an open heart toward everyone,” said Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of ...

Pope Francis is being laid to rest on Saturday following his death at the age of 88, with tens of thousands of mourners ...

Cardinal Re also repeated one of Francis's strongest criticisms of President Trump - who was in the audience - with a call to "build bridges not walls". He also called for care for migrants and action ...

Francis is breaking with recent tradition and will be buried in the St. Mary Major Basilica, where a simple underground tomb ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners and world leaders including US President Donald Trump packed St. Peter's Square on April 26 ...

Royalty, presidents, prime ministers and a legion of faithful will pay their last respects to Pope Francis on Saturday at a funeral mass in St. Peter's Square to honour his sometimes turbulent papacy.

This truly amazing and the most unbelievable miracle occurred almost three and half decades ago in the holy abode of Lord Sri Venkateswara of the Tirumala Tirupati temple located on a hill top in the ...