It is the particular pink smoke with which a group of women reminds the cardinals that out of the 133 cardinals who will choose the leader of 1.4 billion faithful, none are women.

Members of Catholic women's group, Women's Ordination Conference, hold flares of pink smoke calling for gender equality in the Catholic Church and in protest of the male-only conclave, Rome, May 7 ...

The group plans to release pink smoke from a hill near the Vatican hours before the conclave starts. "The exclusion of women from the conclave, and from ordained ministry, ...

Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope on Wednesday – and more broadly from the church’s entire global priesthood – some Catholic women were determined that their voices would be heard.

Pink smoke signals in Rome call for women priests. Rome (AFP) – Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope Wednesday -- and more broadly from the Church's entire global priesthood ...

Campaigns to sway the conclave's decision started minutes after Pope Francis’ death was announced. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In a park on a hill overlooking the dome of St Peter's and the church's Vatican headquarters, campaigners released pink smoke from flares, and demanded that women be allowed to seek ordination.