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Mass is held at Melbourne's cathedral after Cardinal George Pell died in Rome aged 81, Pell was convicted and later cleared of sexual abuse in Australia. Pell died of complications related to a hip surgery he had undergone in a Rome hospital on Tuesday, according to the Vatican's official news website. IMAGES
Mass is held in the cathedral in the city of Regensburg, where the late former pope Benedict XVI taught at the university between 1969 and 1977 and came back regularly to visit his brother, the leader of the cathedral choir. Benedict, who passed away on Saturday morning at the age of 95, had shocked the world in 2013 when he became the first pope since the Middle Ages to step down, citing his declining mental and physical health. IMAGES
Pope Francis arrives at the Chaldean Cathedral of "Saint Joseph" in Baghdad to hold a holy mass. IMAGES
Dozens of Catholics gather to pray in front of the Saint-Augustin church in Paris, kneeling on the ground, to demand the immediate return of Mass. Mass and other religious ceremonies are prohibited under France's second confinement against coronavirus. IMAGES
Catholics gather in front of Saint-André Cathedral in Bordeaux to protest against the ban on mass. IMAGES