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Pope’s Planned Visit to Iraq, Amid Pandemic, Raises Questions of Timing Pope Francis has said he is determined to visit the war-torn country. But some worry that the visit will become a superspreader event in a land where the virus still rages. A banner depicting Pope Francis in Qaraqosh, a town of Syriac Catholics, in Iraq last week.Credit.Zaid Al-Obeidi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images has said that he has canceled trips during the pandemic because “in conscience I cannot provoke gatherings,” but that the only thing that would stop him from becoming the first pope to visit war-scarred Iraq would be a new surge in infections.

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