Vatican City, April 25, 2025 (AFP) - Vatican braces for huge crowds ahead of Pope's funeral

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2025-04-25

The Vatican will make final preparations Friday for Pope Francis's funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners file through St Peter's Basilica to view his open coffin. Many of the 50 heads of state and 10 monarchs attending Saturday's ceremony in St Peter's Square, who include US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, are expected to arrive on Friday in Rome. Italian and Vatican authorities have placed the area......

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