All sports events scheduled for Easter Monday in Italy were postponed, including four Serie A games: Torino-Udinese, Cagliari-Fiorentina, Genoa-Lazio and Parma-Juventus. The four games will be played Wednesday, the Italian league announced.

Pope Francis's cause of death may be linked to a brain issue, possibly a stroke, Italian media reports. Italian daily La Repubblica reported words from the doctors from the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where Pope Francis was treated for weeks following his admission in February for dual pneumonia. They said: "The pope died peacefully."

Italy's top-flight soccer league Serie A has postponed all of Monday's fixtures following the death of Pope Francis, and the four games will now be played on Wednesday. The country's Olympic committee has also asked for all sporting events to be suspended.