Authorities said 140,000 people had lined the streets, clapping and waving as the hearse – a repurposed white popemobile – crossed the Tiber river and drove past some of Rome’s most recognisable ...

As pope, Francis traveled to dozens of countries on five continents. In his last days, he stayed much closer to home.

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

July 8, 2013: Makes first trip outside Rome to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa to meet with newly arrived ... Indigenous ...

Argentine Marcelo Bruno jumped into a car early on Thursday and set off on the long drive to Rome from Syracuse on the island ...

Pope Francis has been buried in Rome, with hundreds of thousands of people and dozens of world leaders attending his funeral ...

Here are some important dates in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in 2013 and died on Monday.

The circuitous procession traversed the Tiber River and symbols of the city’s ... the pope’s journey to Lampedusa — an Italian island that has become a symbol of Europe’s migration crisis ...

July 8, 2013: Makes first trip outside Rome to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa to meet with newly arrived ... Indigenous ...

Italian authorities have tightened security around the Vatican, adding drones to foot and horse patrols to their controls along the Tiber River and ... six people on the island of Crete in ...

VATICAN CITY — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: ...