World leaders and ordinary mourners have gathered in St Peters Square for the funeral of Pope Francis.

George Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison.

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In just hours, the streets of Rome will be flooded with mourners from around the globe as Pope Francis is laid to rest in the simple manner he requested.

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Mykola Bychok says he had personally spoken of the war with the late pontiff and asked Francis to pray for the 20,000 Ukrainian children taken by force to Russia.

Heads of state and royalty will converge on Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vaticans St. Peters Square.

The pontiff was dismissed as woke by MAGA conservatives, but he stood up for humanity against their weird cult, helping to redefine Catholicism along the way.

Amid all the languages used to remember the late pontiff, there will be one never before heard at a papal funeral: Chinese.

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More than 125,000 people have now viewed Pope Francis lying in state as a ring of steel surrounds Rome.