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Earl Crow: Taking a look at the Pope s visit to Iraq
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Earl Crow: Taking a look at the Pope s visit to Iraq
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U.S. Chaldean Catholics hope pope’s Iraq trip brings peace
Worshippers attend Mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh, Iraq, Feb. 23, 2021. Pope Francis plans to Qaraqosh March 7 during his March 5-8 trip to Iraq. (CNS photo/Thaier al-Sudani, Reuters)
By Joyce Coronel • Catholic News Service • Posted March 2, 2021
PHOENIX (CNS) The 1,200 Chaldean Catholic families who live in Arizona are thousands of miles from the land of their birth.
On March 5, their hearts will turn toward their native Iraq.
That day, Pope Francis will arrive in Baghdad, the capital of the Middle Eastern nation that has been torn by war, violence and religious persecution for decades. It marks the first time a pope has ever traveled to the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jonah.
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A visit to Iraq by the leader of the world s Catholics will help to bring a spirit of unity and reconciliation to revive the war-torn country, a senior bishop told
The Nation
The
visit from March 5 to 8 will be the first trip abroad by Pope Francis since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
It will also be the first time Iraq welcomes the sovereign of the Vatican City.
“Every step in this visit is significant and has its value in encouraging people to be united and work together to achieve peace,” said Auxiliary Bishop Basel Yaldo of Baghdad, who is the Catholic Church’s general coordinator for
With Iraq trip upcoming, Pope Francis makes appeal for peace in Middle East
After announcing that he would travel to Iraq in March, Pope Francis spoke about the country’s worsening humanitarian crisis in a video, calling for peace and stability. Iraqi Christians pray at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, damaged by Islamic State fighters during their occupation of Qaraqosh, east of Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 12, 2016. Qaraqosh, the biggest Christian town on the Nineveh Plains in Iraq’s north, fell to the Islamic State group in 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
December 10, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Days after announcing that he would travel to Iraq in March, Pope Francis spoke about the country’s worsening humanitarian crisis in a video, calling for peace and stability.
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