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Apr 2025
21m 12s

The Death of the Pope

BBC News
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Today, Pope Francis has died aged 88.

The first Latin American leader of the of the Roman Catholic Church, Francis had been in hospital for 5 weeks due to pneumonia. Adam and Aleem Maqbool, the BBC’s Religion Editor discuss his legacy.

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