The Vatican is making final preparations for Pope Francis' funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners file through St ...

After so many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter's Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open ...

Rome and the Vatican are being transformed into a fortress for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday.With world leaders ...

Heads of state and royalty will begin converging on Rome for Pope Francis’ funeral in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, but ...

After the funeral, Francis' coffin will be driven at a walking pace to be buried at his favourite church, Rome's papal basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The pontiff was a champion of underdogs, and a ...

The funeral of Pope Francis will take place in St Peter's Square on Saturday 26 April at 10.00, after three days of lying in ...

More than 170 delegations – including heads of state and government and other dignitaries, such as United States President ...

St. Peter's Basilica will be kept open until midnight on Wednesday and Thursday to allow the faithful to mourn.

As the night fell on Rome, a long line of mourners — children, nuns, tourists and others — still waited outside the ...

Heads of state are expected for Francis’ funeral, but the three days of public viewing in the basilica allow ordinary ...