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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 22 April 2025
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1. Leaders of different faiths posing with photo of Pope Francis
2. Orthodox priests
3. Wide of ceremony
4. Faithful
5. Faithful holding photo of Pope Francis
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Monsignor Jorge García Cuerva, Archbishop of Buenos Aires:
"Francis said that when we reach Heaven we will have an incredible surprise because we are all brothers and because God see us with his heart, the love of God is the same for all and asks us always that the dialogue between religions is fundamentally for the common good and for the poorest."
7. Ceremony
8. Photo of Pope Francis
9. Wide of Rabbi Daniel Goldman
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rabbi Daniel Goldman:
"Bidding farewell to a man of Pope Francis’s magnitude exceeds any word that can be said or written."
11. Various of Chief of Staff Guillermo Francos, front center, and Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein during ceremony
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sheikh Salim Delgado Dassum:
"We remember his visit to the Holy Land and his concern to end armed conflicts. We remember and thank his daily calls to the Holy Family Parish in Gaza in recent months."
13. Various of nuns
14. Faithful Federico Zanetta looking at picture on wall
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Federico Zanetta, 34, faithful:
"The Pope taught us and the world many things. What bothers me as an Argentine is that he couldn’t come due to the political conflicts here in Argentina, but I would like all Argentines and the world to carry him in our hearts."
16. Various of Buenos Aires Cathedral
17. Faithful putting candle at steps of the Cathedral
18. Various of items left at steps of the Cathedral
19. Various of people placing candles
20. Man drawing sketch of Pope Francis on road
STORYLINE:
A day after Francis’ physical departure, leaders of Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, and Evangelicals from his native Argentina pledged on Tuesday to deepen the interreligious dialogue that the first Latin American Pope so insistently promoted as a condition for global peace.
"Francis said that dialogue between religions is fundamentally for the common good and for the poorest," recalled the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Monsignor Jorge García Cuerva, at the beginning of the interreligious ceremony in the Cathedral of Buenos Aires.
Francis, the first Latin American Pope who died on Monday at the age of 88, was a persistent promoter of dialogue between different faiths as Bishop of Buenos Aires and sought to institutionalize it with the creation of the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue (IDI) two decades ago.
"Interreligious dialogue is a necessary condition for peace in the world," he insisted even as Pope.
Rabbi Daniel Goldman, a leading figure in the IDI, stated that "bidding farewell to a man of Pope Francis’s magnitude exceeds any word that can be said or written."
For his part, Sheikh Salim Delgado Dassum highlighted the Supreme Pontiff’s concern for the conflict in the Middle East, as demonstrated by "his daily calls to the Holy Family Parish in Gaza in recent months."
For the representative of the Protestant Evangelical Churches, "the life of Pope Francis has risen as an altar to God, he helped us, helps us, and will continue to help us believe in the goodness of God."
AP Video shot by Victor R. Caivano
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