How international news channels announced the death of Pope Francis

Broadcasters in Europe and Latin America reported on the death of Pope Francis on 21 April. Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic church, died aged 88. He had recently survived a serious bout of double pneumonia. During his 12-year papacy, Francis – the first Jesuit pope – was a vocal champion of the world’s poor, dispossessed and disadvantaged, and a blunt critic of corporate greed and social and economic inequality