US
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he and First Lady
Melania Trump will be attending Pope Francis's funeral service in Rome.
“Melania
and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome. We look
forward to being there!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Earlier
in the day, the Holy See announced that Pope Francis died on Easter
Monday at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa
Marta.
Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for the
Laity, the Family, and Life, said that Pope Francis died at 5:35 GMT.
Trump
ordered flags to be flown at half-mast at all public buildings and
grounds on the day of late Pope Francis' burial, the date of which has
yet to be announced.
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