Brazil, house to the world’s largest Catholic neighborhood worldwide, will maintain seven days of mourning to mark the dying of Pope Francis, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated on Monday.
“Humanity is shedding a voice of respect and charity right now. Pope Francis lived and propagated in his each day life the love, tolerance and solidarity which are the muse of Christian teachings,” Lula wrote on X.
Worshippers joined companies throughout Brazil to wish for the late pontiff, who handed away within the Vatican early on Monday aged 88.
Brazilian, a rustic of some 182 million, is house to the most important variety of Catholics worldwide, in line with a Vatican Information report from March.
Globally, some 1.4 billion individuals are a part of the Catholic Church, in line with the figures.
