(22 Apr 2025)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 21 April 2025
++ NIGHT SHOTS ++
1. Father Ignacio Bagattini lightING candles
2. Faithful gather to light candles
3. Various of faithful singing and holding candles during a mass underneath a highway at Villa, or neighborhood 31
4. Various of people lighting candles near a photo of Pope Francis
5. Various of people touching a photo of Pope Francis
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Graciela Martinez, 55, faithful:
"It’s a mixture of emotions because there’s pain, sadness because we won’t be able to see him anymore, but there’s also the joy of knowing he’s at peace, resting, and with Jesus."
7. Photo of Pope Francis
8. Various of Father Ignacio Bagattini giving mass
9. A person watches mass from a balcony
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Father Ignacio Bagattini, priest:
"The most humble are those who don’t have a home; they are on the streets. They are those who don’t have a job, and that was one of the most important concerns our beloved Pope had, and to all of them, as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires said, as the father of all, he (the Pope) wanted to give them an answer, to try to accompany them."
11. Faithful crying
12. Various of faithful singing
13. Father Bagattini during mass
14. Faithful during mass
15. Faithful hugging
STORYLINE:
On the day of his death in Pope Francis’ hometown, Argentines gathered to pay homage to a man who was known to work closely with the poorest in society.
In the Villa 31 low-income neighborhood sitting in the center of the Buenos Aires, a congregation gathered at night to hear a mass dedicated to the Argentine-born pontiff.
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, passed away at the age of 88 just one day after delivering his final Easter message from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.
History’s first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated many conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change.
Francis recently returned to the Vatican after 38 days in a hospital for a respiratory crisis that developed into double pneumonia, the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy.
He last appeared in public on Sunday with an Easter blessing and popemobile tour through a cheering crowd in St. Peter’s Square. No funeral date has been announced.
The next pope is yet to be decided.
AP Video shot Victor R. Caivano
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