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Cardinals attend the Vespers prayers after visiting the tomb of Pope Francis in Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major (Santa Maria Maggiore), in Rome, Italy, April 27, 2025. Francesco Sforza/Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS
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Conclave to elect new pope to start on 7 May, cardinals meet

The previous two conclaves, held in 2005 and 2013, lasted just two days

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus leaves Rome for home on Sunday, 27 April 2025, a day after joining the funeral mass of Pope Francis at St Peter's Square in Vatican City. Photo: CA Press Wing
Bangladesh

CA Yunus leaves Rome for home

People attend the funeral Mass of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 26, 2025. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
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Rome and the world bid farewell to Pope Francis with massive funeral and humble burial

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus attended the funeral of Pope Francis at St Peter’s Square in Vatican City on 26 April 2025. Photo: PID
Bangladesh

CA Yunus pays last tribute to Pope Francis, joins funeral

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus of the Bangladesh interim government. Sketch: TBS
Bangladesh

CA Yunus leaves Qatar for Vatican to pay last tribute to Pope Francis

Pope Francis' body is carried in a coffin to Saint Peter's Basilica, on the day of its translation, at the Vatican, April 23. Photo: Vatican Media/Mario Tomassetti
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Vatican braces for huge crowds ahead of Pope's funeral

Pope Francis waves from a balcony on the day of the "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and to the world) message, at St. Peter's Square, on Easter Sunday, in the Vatican, April 20, 2025. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
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What happens after the pope dies?

Pope Francis presides over the Good Friday Passion of the Lord service in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, March 29, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
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Pope Francis skips Good Friday procession at Rome's Colosseum to protect health, Vatican says

FILE PHOTO: A document from archives on Pope Pius XII, who reigned from 1939-1958, containing the names of the people who have been executed during the Ardeatine massacre is displayed ahead of the full opening of the secret archives to scholars on March 2, at the Vatican, February 27,2020. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
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Letter shows Pope Pius XII probably knew about Holocaust early on

A Vatican trial of 10 people accused of financial crimes, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resumes after a chief judge ordered the prosecution to give the defence more access to evidence and to question defendants who were not given the right to speak earlier, at the Vatican, November 17, 2021. Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Europe

Vatican court hears cardinal's secretly taped phone call with pope

Pope Francis leads a mass to ordain bishops at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, October 17, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
Europe

Pope condemns attacks in Norway, Afghanistan and Britain, following Amess stabbing

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary of Relations with States for The Holy See, addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., October 1, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
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Vatican hopes its pre-COP26 climate event will raise stakes in Glasgow

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Pope Francis appoints first woman to the Synod of Bishops