Temisan Olaifa
The Head of the Catholic church worldwide, Pope Francis, is dead.
He was 88 years of age.
He died today, Easter Monday, after a brief illness.
In a statement, the Vatican said the pope “died on Easter Monday at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta”.
On Easter Sunday, the pope was pictured greeting crowds from the gallery of St Peter’s Basilica after celebrating mass with the faithful.
Pope Francis had been battling bilateral pneumonia and was discharged from the hospital on March 23.
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