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Global News Podcast

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

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:06.6

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

0:13.9

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

0:22.9

criticised the latest Russian attacks on Ukraine, suggesting that perhaps Vladimir Putin doesn't

0:28.9

want the war to stop. Also in this podcast, Iranian media say a huge fire at one of Iran's largest ports is becoming

0:40.2

more intense and could spread.

0:42.3

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

0:46.6

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

0:59.6

Pope Francis has been laid to rest at his favourite church in Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore, after a private service.

1:08.8

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

1:18.4

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

1:25.0

Earlier, dozens of heads of state and royal guests

1:28.1

joined other mourners for the main service at St. Peter's Basilica.

1:32.9

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

1:36.9

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

1:46.8

From the early hours, tens of thousands flocked to St Peter's Square to be part of this moving,

1:53.5

historic day.

1:55.6

Ahead of the funeral mass, inside the basilica, visiting dignitaries took a final chance

2:00.8

to pay their respects beside the coffin

2:03.2

but by mid-morning they'd taken their seats clergy on the left politicians and sovereigns on the right

2:10.4

but other guests invited at pope francis request included prison inmates migrants and torture victims.

2:20.3

And then, to start proceedings, the body of Pope Francis was brought through the basilica.

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