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Vatican City: Former Pope Benedict XVI Passes Away At 95

Former Pope Benedict passed away at his Vatican residence on Saturday at the age of 95. Read on for details:

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Former pope Benedict in quotes

Vatican City (AFP) - Here is a selection of Benedict XVI's standout quotes, some of them controversial, from his 2005-2013 papacy and in his retirement.

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Catholic controversy over two popes in the Vatican

Vatican City (AFP) - The shock retirement in 2013 of pope Benedict XVI, who died on Saturday aged 95, raised serious questions within the Roman Catholic Church about the extent to which there could be two "men in white" at the Vatican.

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Benedict XVI: The pope who walked away

Vatican City (AFP) - Benedict XVI, who died on Saturday aged 95, was the first pope to resign since the Middle Ages after a papacy beset by Church infighting and outcry over paedophilia.

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Former Pope Benedict was first pontiff to resign in 600 years

VATICAN CITY - Former Pope Benedict, who died on Saturday aged 95, was the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, leaving behind a Catholic Church battered by sexual abuse scandals, mired in mismanagement and polarised between conservatives and progressives.

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Prayers in Germany, Rome for frail ex-pope Benedict

Vatican City (AFP) - Ex-pope Benedict XVI's condition remains stable, the Vatican said Friday, as Catholics prayed for the 95-year old former pontiff whose health has seriously deteriorated.

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Catholic Jesuit order hit by priest abuse scandal

Vatican City (AFP) - The Catholic Jesuit order, of which Pope Francis is a member, has been rocked by claims a prominent priest abused several women, a case raising questions about how the Church sanctions offenders.

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Ex-pope Benedict is 'lucid', condition stable: Vatican

Vatican City (AFP) - Former pope Benedict XVI is "lucid and alert" and his condition remains serious but stable, the Vatican said Thursday, the day after revealing the 95-year-old's health had deteriorated.

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Death of ex-pope would put Vatican in uncharted territory

Vatican City (AFP) - The death of a pope usually sets in motion time-honoured traditions, but with ex-pontiff Benedict XVI in failing health the Vatican is on unfamiliar ground.

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Ex-pope Benedict's health serious but stable: media

Vatican City (AFP) - Former pope Benedict XVI remains in a serious but stable condition, Italian media reported Thursday, the day after the Vatican revealed the 95-year-old's health had deteriorated.

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Pope urges prayers for 'very ill' ex-pontiff Benedict

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis said Wednesday that Benedict XVI, who in 2013 became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries, is "very ill" and urged people to pray for him.

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Pope says ex-pontiff Benedict 'very ill'

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis said Wednesday that former pontiff Benedict XVI, 95, is "very ill", and urged people to pray for him before going to be by his side.

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Pope says ex-pontiff Benedict 'very ill', asks for prayers

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis said Wednesday that former pontiff Benedict XVI, 95, whose health has steadily been deteriorating, is "very ill" and called on the faithful to pray for him.

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At Christmas, Pope urges end to 'senseless' Ukraine war

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Sunday appealed for an end to the "senseless" war in Ukraine, in his traditional Christmas Day message broadcast around the world.

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Pope Francis to address faithful on Christmas Day

Vatican City (AFP) - Thousands of people are set to gather Sunday in St Peter's Square to hear Pope Francis deliver his Christmas Day message, where he is expected to offer prayers for war-torn Ukraine.

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Pope to return three Parthenon fragments to Athens

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis is to return to Greece three fragments of Athens' Parthenon temple, in what the Vatican called Friday a gesture of friendship.

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Pope says spend less on Christmas, give to Ukraine

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Wednesday called on people to spend less on Christmas presents and celebrations, and donate the money saved to those in war-ravaged Ukraine.

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Pope to visit DR Congo, S. Sudan in early 2023

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan early next year, a trip previously postponed due to problems with his knee, the Vatican said Thursday.

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Pope visits Bahrain for interfaith talks with rights in spotlight

Fiumicino (Italy) (AFP) - Pope Francis, leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics, departed Thursday for the Gulf state of Bahrain to foster ties with Islam in a trip overshadowed by criticism of human rights abuses.

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Francis' first visit to Bahrain to cement ties with Islam

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis will become the first pontiff in history to visit Bahrain, in a trip this week that is hoped will cement ties with Islam but is also marked by accusations of human rights abuses in the Gulf state.

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Pope urges UN reform after Ukraine war, Covid 'limits'

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis said the need to reform the United Nations was "more than obvious" after the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war exposed its limits, in an extract of his new book published Sunday.

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Pope to visit Bahrain in November

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis will in November visit Bahrain, home to the biggest Catholic church in the Arabian peninsula, the Vatican said Wednesday.

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Central Asian tensions to colour pope's Kazakhstan trip

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis heads to Kazakhstan next week, despite an injured knee, for a visit likely to be dominated by tensions in the Central Asian region following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Pope Francis beatifies 'Smiling' John Paul I

Vatican City (AFP) - Thousands of people gathered in St Peter's Square on Sunday as Pope Francis presided over the beatification of John Paul I, the so-called "Smiling Pope" who led the Catholic Church for just 33 days before dying in contested circumstances.

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Pope creates new cardinals who may choose successor

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Saturday created 20 new cardinals picked from the four corners of the world, most of whom could one day end up choosing his successor.

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