More than 2,000 people turned up in St Peter’s Square today to dance a tango for Pope Francis on his birthday. The Pope, who is 78 today, was greeted with happy birthday songs as he drove through St Peter’s Square and stopped to blow out the candles on a birthday cake that Argentine priests presented to him. At the rear edge of the square thousands of people celebrated the Pope's birthday by dancing the tango, the Pontiff's favourite dance. A Vatican spokesman also told the Catholic News Service that volunteers will be giving out gifts to the homeless in Rome today in honour of the Pope’s birthday.