The world has been paying tribute to the memory of Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope and a transformative figure in the modern Catholic Church.He had suffered from double pneumonia earlier this year and died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. His death came as a shock following his appearance in St Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday, where he greeted crowds from an open-air popemobile.

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Folge vom 22.04.2025The world mourns Pope Francis
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Folge vom 21.04.2025Waiting for decades: How a processing backlog for parent visas could sway votesOpposition leader Peter Dutton has vowed the Coalition will not cut Australia's annual intake of parent visas after sustained pressure to reveal where its planned cuts to permanent migration would come from. The backlog of parent visas has ballooned under this term of government. Despite increasing the cap, Labor has had little appetite to reform the system.
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Folge vom 21.04.2025OBITUARY: Pope Francis 1936-2025Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, and religious leader for more than one billion people, has died aged 88. Known for humility, compassion and a reformist approach to leadership, he was the first Latin American Pontiff.
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