Pope Francis

As His Holiness visits Iraq, the status of the persecuted Christian community in the country remains uncertain. ROME, ITALY - MARCH 05: Pope Francis departs for his trip to Iraq from Leonardo Da Vinci airport on March 05, 2021 in Rome, Italy. Pope Francis will start the historic first ever…

Pope Francis has called for an end to “violence and extremism” in his opening address on the first-ever papal visit to Iraq, long scarred by war and now gripped by the coronavirus pandemic. The 84-year-old defied a second wave of the global pandemic and renewed security fears to make a…

Pope Francis on Friday called for an end to violence in Iraq as he arrived in the country for a historic visit. The 84-year-old pontiff said he is making the trip, which has been planned for several years, as a "pilgrim of peace". "Let the guns fall silent,” he said…

Mr President, Members of government and the diplomatic corps, Distinguished authorities, Representatives of civil society, Ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful for the opportunity to make this long-awaited and desired visit to the Republic of Iraq, and to come to this land, a cradle of civilisation closely linked through the…

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Pope Francis landed in Baghdad on a breezy afternoon Friday to begin an unprecedented visit to the land revered as the birthplace of the patriarch Abraham and the site of the Garden of Eden. But the Christian community waiting to greet Christendom’s most prominent figure is one exhausted by decades…

BAGHDAD: Pope Francis landed in Baghdad on Friday (Mar 5) for his most risky foreign trip since his election in 2013, saying he felt duty-bound to make the "emblematic" visit because Iraq had suffered so much for so long. An Alitalia plane carrying him, his entourage, a security detail, and…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Pope Francis arrived in Iraq on Friday to urge the country’s dwindling number of Christians to stay put and help rebuild the country after years of war and persecution, brushing aside the coronavirus pandemic and security concerns to make his first-ever papal visit. Iraqis were keen to…

BAGHDAD — Pope Francis begins his first overseas trip since the coronavirus outbreak Friday. Of all the places he could travel to, he chose Iraq. The pilgrimage to historic Babylon has been a dream of former popes — a visit to the birthplace of Abraham, patriarch of Jews, Christians and…

 Pope Francis arrives at Baghdad Airprot on March 5, 2021 on the first papal visit to Iraq. — AFP BAGHDAD: Pope Francis landed in war-battered Iraq Friday on a first-ever papal visit, defying security fears and the pandemic to comfort one of the world's oldest and most persecuted Christian communities.…