In the Philippines, a nation with one of the world’s largest Catholic populations, worshippers have been paying their respects to the man fondly nicknamed the ‘slum pope’ for his desire to help the less fortunate.
Pope Francis had also worked hard to boost Catholicism in developing countries as the flock slowly dwindles elsewhere.
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