Pope Francis Dies Aged 88

File photo - Pope Francis receives Sheik Ahmed el-Tayyib, Grand Imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque, during a private audience at the Vatican on May 23, 2016. Pope Francis embraced the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the prestigious Sunni Muslim center of learning, in a sign that a five-year suspension of important Catholic-Muslim ties was over. The meeting comes five years after the Cairo-based Al-Azhar froze talks with the Vatican to protest comments by then-Pope Benedict XVI. -- Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM