Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

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A United States tourist visiting Rome was impaled on a metal fence at the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, on Friday.

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A selection by Reuters editors of some of the photos from Pope Francis' funeral with comments by photographers ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — World dignitaries and Catholic faithful attended Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday.

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The 88-year-old pontiff was buried in a private ceremony in Rome's Santa Maria Maggiore (St Mary Major), following an outdoor funeral mass at the Vatican where an estimated crowd of 250,000 ...

The 88-year-old pontiff was buried in a private ceremony in Rome's Santa Maria Maggiore (St Mary Major), following an outdoor funeral mass at the Vatican where an estimated crowd of 250,000 gathered, ...

It continued past the ancient Roman Forum and Colosseum ... The 13 spent the night in a nearby square. They were already coming to Rome for the planned canonization of the first millennial ...

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As it passed the Colosseum, the ancient Roman amphitheater that’s one of Italy’s most iconic sites, tourists and faithful lined the route to snap photos of this final “popemobile” moment – eerily ...