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The funeral ceremony began at 10:00 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. IST) in the historic Baroque square in front of St. Peter’s Basilica. Before the service, his body was placed in a cypress-wood coffin, which will later be enclosed within two additional coffins made of different types of wood, each nesting within the other, for his final burial.

On Tuesday evening, the health update on Pope Francis stated, "The Holy Father's condition remains critical but stable, with no acute respiratory episodes, and his hemodynamic parameters remaining steady."

Doctors said the prognosis remained guarded. “In the morning, after receiving the Eucharist, he resumed work activities,” the Vatican says

Says the 88-year-old Francis, suffering from pneumonia in both lungs, hadn't had any more respiratory crises

But he remains alert and “well-oriented”, and attended Mass, says Vatican as 88-year-old pontiff battles pneumonia and a complex lung infection

Test results indicate that he is suffering from a polymicrobial infection that requires a second change in his drug therapy, says Vatican spokesman

The visit will be scheduled as per the convenience of Pope Francis, says Union Minister George Kurian

Francis, who turns 87 on Sunday, also said he never thought about resigning this year despite a series of health scares.

Christopher Saunders, now 73, resigned in 2021 as bishop of Broome, an Outback region of northwest Australia larger than France but with a population of only 50,000, after police announced they had dropped a sex crime investigation.

It's the first time a pope has visited the landlocked Asian country and comes at a time when the Vatican's relations with Mongolia's two powerful neighbours, Russia and China, are once again strained.

Describing the war as "senseless", the head of the Roman Catholic Church urged to put an immediate end to the ongoing aggression that took uncountable lives.

Pope Francis had on May 29 announced 21 new Cardinals with Archbishop Anthony being one among them. The Pope him as a Cardinal in a ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City at 7:30 pm IST.

Hyderabad: Archbishop of Hyderabad Poola Anthony has been chosen as Cardinal by the Pope Francis at the Vatican on Sunday. From India, Filipe Neri Antonio Sebastao di Rosario Ferrao, Archbishop of Goa and Daman, has also been chosen as Cardinal by the Pope Francis. It is a proud moment for the Archdiocese of Hyderabad and […]