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Adieu, Pope Emeritus
Believers throng St Peter’s to pay their respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI .Believers thronged St Peter’s Basilica on Monday, January 2 where the body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is lying in state for the public to pay their respects.

Tributes to Benedict XVI
Tributes pour in from all corners of the world for late pope emeritus
Meanwhile, tributes poured in from world and Church leaders for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

SPIRITUAL TESTAMENT 
Pope Emeritus’ Spiritual Testament urges Church to stand firm in its faith
On December 31, the Vatican released the Spiritual Testament of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, which was written almost 17 years ago on August 29, 2006.

REMEMBERING POPE EMERITUS
Pope Francis recalls Benedict XVI's witness of faith, prayer, and kindness Pope Francis presided over the customary end-of-year celebration of Vespers, which was followed by the Church's solemn hymn of Thanksgiving for the previous year, the Te Deum.

His last words
‘Lord, I love you’ were the last words Pope Benedict pronounced in Italian:
Archbishop Gänswein "Lord, I love you" - these were the last words of Pope Benedict XVI before breathing his last at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican on Saturday.

NEW YEAR'S DAY MASS
Pope entrusts Benedict XVI's soul to the intercession of the Blessed MotherPope Francis remembered his predecessor at the New Year's Day Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, entrusting him to the intercession of the Virgin Mary.

BAVARIA IN MOURNING 
Pilgrims in Germany pay tribute to Bavaria’s most famous son
Believers and clergy attended a Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Saint Magdalena church in Altoetting, Germany on December 31.

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
18 Christian missionaries killed in 2022 across the globe, says Fides report Eighteen missionaries were killed worldwide in 2022, according to data acquired by Agenzia Fides.

GENOCIDE WARNING
Rights group issues genocide warning over crisis in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh The small, landlocked contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh wedged between Armenia and Azerbaijan is once more in a state of chaos.

Pool of Siloam

Site where Jesus healed a blind man to be opened to the public
This week, archaeologists in Israel revealed plans to dig and unveil to the public for the first time the location where Jesus Christ healed a blind man at the Pool of Siloam.