Ethiopians celebrate Easter with calls for charity and peace
- On Easter Sunday 2025, U.S. Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Francis at the Vatican shortly before the pope delivered his traditional Easter address in the main square of the Vatican.
- The meeting came amid Pope Francis' declining health and shortly before his death on Monday at age 88, marking one of his final public appearances.
- During his visit, Vance also met Cardinal Pietro Parolin, discussing their shared Catholic faith, persecuted Christian communities, and President Trump's peace efforts amid political tensions.
- Vance expressed admiration for Pope Francis, reflecting on a 2020 homily about faith amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and noted that he had recently seen the Pope despite his visible illness.
- Following the pope's death, President Trump ordered U.S. Flags at half-staff and praised Francis as "a good man," while Vance continued on to India after posting tributes on social media.
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Actually, the ARD wanted to send the new "Tatort: In delusion" at 8.15 p.m. The death of Pope Francis caused a change of program.
The Vatican has published the spiritual testament of Pope Francis, whose death was announced on April 21.
The Vatican has made public the will of Pope Francis, who died at 7.35 this Monday because of a stroke and a subsequent “irreversible heart failure”. The Pontiff, 88 years old, had asked to be buried in a simple way in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major of Rome and not in the Vatican, as usual. “The tomb must be on earth; simple, without particular decoration and with a single inscription: Franciscus”, can be read in the official document, which h…
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