April 21, 2025 (Monday)

The South Sudan People's Defence Forces capture the town of Nasir in Upper Nile State from the Nuer White Army.

Following Pope Francis's death, cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Camerlengo, becomes the acting head of Vatican City until the next papal conclave in May.

Camerlengo Kevin Farrell announces that Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88 years old early on Easter Monday.

Klaus Schwab steps down as leader of the World Economic Forum, which he founded in 1971.

The perpetrator of the racially motivated domestic terrorist mass shooting attack that killed 23 people and injured 22 others at a Walmart building in El Paso, Texas, United States, in 2019, 26-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, pleads guilty to state charges and is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole to avoid the death penalty.

In long-distance running, Kenyan road runner John Korir wins the men's competition at the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:04:45 which, along with his brother Wesley Korir's win in 2012, makes them the first and only set of brothers to win the event. Fellow Kenyan athlete Sharon Lokedi wins the women's competition with a time of 2:17:22 and sets the new course record, surpassing Buzunesh Deba's record in 2014.