The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...

In a solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, political and religious leaders joined a crowd of thousands in mourning the death ...

World leaders, cardinals and at least 200,000 of the faithful are expected to gather in the Vatican on Saturday morning to ...

Following the Queen star's death at 45 in 1991, the main beneficiary of his estimated £200million fortune wasn't his close ...

Although Pope Francis could not make the visit to India that he had hoped for, the country has offered an outpouring of ...

The SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies was launched in June 2018 thanks to the generous donation from a Parsi benefactor, Mr Shapoor Mistry, in the name of his father, Mr ...

The Archdiocese of Bombay hosted an interfaith prayer service on Friday to honour Pope Francis and his message of compassion, ...

They involve the certification of death and public display of his body for the faithful to pay their respects, followed by the funeral and burial. Pope Francis, who died on Monday, revised various ...

The death of a pope is solemnly observed in a nine-day mourning period known as Novemdiales, along with time-honored rituals from certification of death to burial. Francis wanted his burial ritual ...

FILE - Pope Francis sits by the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square during a funeral mass at the Vatican, on Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File) ...