Royals, world leader, Catholic faithful offer goodbye to Pope Francis – Thage

By Ayo Kehinde

Royals, the world leaders, on Saturday, joined hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful in the square of San Pietro in the Vatican, to say goodbye to the late Pope Francis.

President of the United States, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, together with Sir Keir Starmer, President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Taoisech Micheál Martin of Ireland; President of Poland, Andrzej Duda; Portuguese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and his prime minister, Luís Montenegro; Mexican interior minister, Rosa Rodríguez Rosa; He has directed a wide selection of global and dignitarian leaders at the funeral.

On Friday, the president of the Senate Godswill Akpabio led a high -level Nigerian delegation, including the Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, the White Ambassador Odumegwu Ojukwu; President of the Catholic Conference of the Bishops of Nigeria, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji; Archbishop of the diocese of Sokoto, Archbishop Matthew Hassan Kukah; and archbishop of the diocese of Abuja, Archbishop Ignazio Ayua Kaigama, at the funeral ceremony.

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to immigrant parents who flew by the Italian fascist government under Benito Mussolini, Francis educated as a chemical technician, worked in the food transformation sector and worked for a short pope and worked for a little branch with Corsaba in Corsaba in Corsaba in Corsaba Corso in Correba for the Sommaverato Sommadio correb in Coromusiona. in March 2013.

Known for his initiatives of humility and reform, Francis was the first Jesuit pope and the first of the Americas, in particular South America. His papacy was marked by a focus on social justice, on environmental protection and a more inclusive approach to the doctrine of the Church.

Francis supported the cause of the poor and marginalized, supporting migrants, refugees and victims of injustice and has supported an urgent action to face climate change and promote ecological management.

“Francis has left everyone a wonderful testimony of humanity, a holy life and universal paternity,” said a formal summary of his papacy, placed next to his body.

The 88 -year -old pontiff died on Easter Monday, April 21, in his residence in the Santa Marta del Vaticano house “.

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