World leaders attend Pope’s funeral mass in Rome

Pope Francis was mentioned as “a chapter among people” during a funeral mass in St. Peter’s Square in Rome attended by world leaders, including US president Donald Trump and Ukraine President Voludmir Zelinsky.

Trump and Zellinski spoke for a few minutes before the funeral started, according to a senior Ukrainian official. This was the first time that they saw each other personally since their general class in the Oval Office in February.

A White House official said that the husband met separately and had a “very fruitful discussion.” X -Yermak’s Chief of Chief of Staff posted that the conversation was “constructive”.

Zelenskyy posted on X to thank Trump, describing it as “a very symbolic meeting that has the ability to become historically, if we achieve common results.”

“We discussed a lot on one. Hoping results on everything we covered. Protecting the lives of our people. A complete and unconditional ceasefire. A reliable and durable peace that would prevent another war from going out,” he wrote.

The applause erupted when Zelinski, who wears the black military uniform who became a primary element in wartime, rose to St. Peter’s Square.

There was also a “positive exchange” between Trump and Zelinski, British Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, according to Ellisie Palace.

European Union official said that Trump shook hands with European Council President Antonio Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Lynn before the funeral began. They had no big conversation. The European Union president has not met or received a call with Trump since he took office in January. The Von Der Leyen Committee is negotiating commercial policy on behalf of all 27 European Union member states.

A spokesman for the chairman, without providing details, said in their summary exchange, Von der Layen and Trump agreed to meet.

Dozens of other world leaders also attended the Mass including Italian Prime Minister Georgia Miloni, the right -wing president in Argentina Javier Miley and Brazilian President Luiz Inosio Lula da Silva.

In honor of the late ink, Cardinal Giovanni Batista, 91, recalled Francis’s commitment to immigrants, refugees and marginalized, and how “he really participated in fears, suffering and hopes at this time of globalization.”

“The conviction that the church is a house for everyone, and it is a home with its doors always open,” Francis said, “Double for the external flights of the late Pope 47, including the 2021 trip to Iraq and a visit to the borders of the United States of Mexican, where he held a mass.

“The church’s image is often used as a field hospital after a battle, where many were injured; a church designed to care for people’s problems … a church capable of bending to every person, regardless of their beliefs or condition, and healing their wounds.”

The royal family, including Prince William, in the United Kingdom, Monarchs Spain, Sweden and Denmark, attended the Mass, as well as heads of international institutions such as the United Nations. Former US President Joe Biden was also present.

The Apostolic Chair estimates that about 200,000 people from all over the world gathered in St. Peter’s Square to obtain a funeral mass, including 220 Cardinal and about 750 bishops and priests. Some of the national flags have erased the believers, while others held banners with letters such as “Farewell to the father, teacher and poet” and “Do you have the courage to be happy” – the title of one of the late Pope’s books.

The applause erupted at the end of the mass when Francis’s coffin was placed on the open white bobille for a 5.5 -km journey across Rome, previous landmarks, including the runway, to its last place in Santa Maria Magior, the favorite of the churches in the many city.

It is the first Pope in more than a century that is buried outside the walls of the Vatican city.

While the burial was a special ceremony, the church will open later so that the mourners can pay respect for the deceased Pope, which will be under the watched a marble grave, “Franciskos”.

About 250,000 people passed through the Church of St. Peter over the three days that Francis put in the state before his coffin was closed Friday evening, according to the Vatican.

Last year, Francis simplified the papal death rituals. Archbishop Diego Ravili, the master of the Apostolic Celebrations, said at the time that the changes were aimed at asserting that “the funeral of the Roman Pope is the funeral of the priest and the student of Christ, and not a strong person in this world.”

During 12 years on the papal throne, Francis sought to make the Catholic Church – which has 1.4 billion followers worldwide – more sympathetic and accessible, while addressing contemporary problems such as climate change.

His death this week pushed at the age of 88 to the flow of sadness from fans, as well as opposition from critics, including the influential members of the Maga Trump.

The burial is the beginning of the official mourning period for a period of nine days, after which up to 135 qualified Cardinals under the age of 80 in the Vatican to pick up the new title.

Among the first applicants, among the PITRO PAROLIN, the late Foreign Minister, the Pope, and the Cardinal Luis Talal from the Philippines and the Cardinal Friedolin Ambongo Bisongo.

Several Catholics will be interpreted by the RIFA funeral for Cardinal voters about the characteristics they should search for in a new door.

Participated in additional reports from Juliana Rickezzi in Rome, Christopher Miller in Kiev, Laila Abboud in Paris, Henry Foy in Brussels and James Politi in Washington