World bids farewell to Pope Francis who told people to 'build bridges, not walls'

世界向教皇方济各告别,他曾教导人们“构建桥梁,而非筑起墙壁”。

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2025-04-27

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Pope Francis has been laid to rest at his favourite church in Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore, after a private service. Also: fatalities after a huge explosion at key Iranian port.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Bernadette Keogh and in the early hours of Sunday the 27th of April these are our main stories.

  • Pope Francis has been buried at his favourite church in Rome after a funeral attended by hundreds of thousands of people.

  • President Trump has criticised the latest Russian attacks on Ukraine,

  • suggesting that perhaps Vladimir Putin doesn't want the war to stop.

  • Also in this podcast,

  • Iranian media say a huge fire at one of Iran's largest ports is becoming more intense and could spread.

  • Iranians were saying that at first they said it's a result of negligence.

  • But later they said that the explosion happened at a storage facility storing inflammable materials.

  • Pope Francis has been laid to rest at his favourite church in Rome,

  • Santa Maria Maggiore, after a private service.

  • Officials say 400,000 people lined the streets on Saturday to see his coffin being taken from the Vatican on an adapted Popemobile.

  • He's the first Pope in more than 120 years to be buried outside the Vatican.

  • Earlier,

  • dozens of heads of state and royal guests joined other mourners for the main service at St Peter's Basilica.

  • People will be able to visit Pope Francis' tomb from today.

  • Our religion editor, Alim McBool, followed Saturday's events in the Vatican.

  • From the early hours,

  • tens of thousands flocked to St Peter's Square to be part of this moving, historic day.

  • Ahead of the funeral mass, inside the Basilica,