‘Millions of people in the Philippines, home to Asia’s largest Catholic Church, marked Pope John Paul II’s funeral.

At home and at work Filipinos watched the television as the Pontiff was laid to rest.

Workers, officials, business leaders and students, carrying banners and photographs of the Pope, slowly made their way in a candle-lit procession.

They gathered in Manila’s Luneta Park, where the Pope himself drew huge crowds 10 years ago.

Philippine police said 20,000 people came to pay their last respects.’

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