Pakistan again attempted to mislead the international community over the presence of a US-designated terrorist at the funeral of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives killed in Indian airstrikes by whitewashing him as a “cleric” and “family man”. Last week, a viral image showed a man leading funeral prayers in Muridke — a known LeT stronghold — after…
US President Donald Trump is no stranger to controversy. This time, he came under fire for standing out – wearing blue in a sea of black – among the heads of state who had flocked to Vatican City to attend Pope Francis’s funeral mass on Saturday. The other global leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron…
Some mourners had spent the night sleeping in the streets near the Vatican, and they started lining up at dawn on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square to bid farewell to Pope Francis. Hours later, world leaders took their seats in rows near an altar set up in front of St. Peter’s Basilica. The scene was…
President Trump, it seems, is fully committed to going his own way when it comes to international relations — even during the funeral of a pope. On Saturday, as he joined other world leaders to pay his respects to Pope Francis, he stood in St. Peter’s Square among President Emmanuel Macron of France (who was…
President Trump met privately with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday in Vatican City, the White House said, the first time the two leaders have met since their televised argument in late February in the Oval Office exacerbated the deep breach between the two countries. The meeting took place in St. Peter’s Basilica, the…
Pope Francis’ funeral is taking place at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. World leaders including President Draupadi Murmu, Donald Trump, Zelensky, and Prince William are in attendance. The papal conclave to elect the next Pope will follow, with discussions about potential successors from Asia or Africa. The funeral involves a traditional three-coffin burial practice…
Pope Francis’ life took him from a modest upbringing in Buenos Aires to lead the Roman Catholic Church as the first Jesuit pontiff and the first from Latin America. Across his 12 years as pope, Francis consistently elevated the causes of migrants and the disenfranchised, and pushed the church to more forcefully confront its own…
Hundreds of thousands of people from across the globe, heads of state and royals will pay their last respects to Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, at his funeral ceremony on Saturday as he will be laid to rest in a basilica outside the walls of the Vatican – breaking with decades of tradition…
Priests, pilgrims and cardinals dressed in black robes and red sashes mixed in the streets of the Vatican on Thursday as tens of thousands of Catholics paid their respects to Pope Francis and preparations for his funeral accelerated. The church also released the first image of the pope’s tomb — a simple, undecorated affair in…
Francis set the stage for his own mourning late last year, when he approved a simplified procedure for papal funeral rituals. Simplicity, of course, is relative — in this case to the breathtaking grandeur bequeathed by centuries of Roman Catholic tradition. The procession above took place Wednesday morning, when Francis’ coffin was carried from the…