The petista would go to Porto Velho (RO) on Thursday and Parauapebas (PA) in the 6th; entourage must go to Rome on Thursday (24.abr)
The president (PT) postponed agendas that he would have in Rondônia and Pará later this week because of the trip he will make to Rome, where he will accompany Pope Francis’ funeral, who died on Monday (21.br.2025).
The details of Lula’s entourage to Italy must be announced later this Thursday (22.abr). The idea is that the Brazilian group will start to Europe at the end of Thursday (24.abr). The first lady Janja da Silva will also be on the trip.
The Vatican reported that the funeral on Saturday (26.abr). The procedures and were simplified by Francisco in November 2024. The body of Francis will be taken to the Basilica of St. Peter and then to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maior, where he will be buried.
The organization of the funeral and the funeral will follow the book “The Roman Pontiff” (funeral rites for a Roman pontiff), which contains indications for the liturgy and the prayers of the ceremonies surrounding the Pope’s burial. One was published after Francisco’s approval. Read the steps that will be followed by the Vatican.
Both in Porto Velho (RO) and Parauapebas (PA), 5th and Friday agendas, respectively, would have government deliveries.
Lula and Francisco
Lula and the Pope met 3 times:
- February 2020 – The petista was with the pontiff in the Vatican 3 months after leaving the arrest. At the time, the meeting was used to reinforce the image of Lula’s international leader. In June 2018, while still in the jail of the Federal Police in Curitiba, a Pope’s emissary tried to give Lula a third that had been blessed by the religious. The Federal Police, however, did not allow its entry. The gift was later delivered accompanied by a ticket. The Holy See clarified after the gesture did not represent an official action of the Pope;
- June 2023 – Lula and Janja met with Francisco at the Vatican during the president’s visit to Italy;
- June 2024 – The president and first lady Janja Lula da Silva were in Puglia, southern Italy, for the G7 summit. Francisco had been invited and had a meeting with the couple at the time.
As they met, Lula has always stressed that the conversations have revolved around convergent themes, such as the fight against hunger and social justice, and peaceful solutions to the wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip.
In 2022, Francisco that the investigation of Operation Lava Jato that led Lula to prison in April 2018, was started from “False media news that created a climate favorable to the trial”.
“It seems that there was no proper procedure. Here you have to be careful with those who set up the scenario of the procedure, whatever they are. They set it through the media in such a way that they have an effect on those who must judge and decide”Said the Pontiff in an interview published by the Spanish newspaper ABC.
In 2023, the Pope again commented on the matter and in an interview with Argentina C5N that Lula was unjustly convicted by Lava Jato and that former President Dilma Rousseff (PT) has “Clean hands” despite having suffered an impeachment.
