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“It was an amazing visit.” That’s how Iraqi President Barham Salih summed up to me the historic visit of Pope Francis
Pope FrancisPope Francis asks Minnesota bishop to resign following Vatican probeBiden should look to Ostpolitik to negotiate with autocratsThe Hill s Morning Report - Biden s infrastructure plan triggers definition debateMORE to Iraq. And President Salih was not exaggerating. It may be true that the pope leads no army, and his territorial domain is surrounded by the city of Rome. One could dismiss the pope as Joseph Stalin reportedly did at Yalta, by asking, “How many divisions does the pope have?” Yet popes have always wielded considerable influence well beyond the confines of the Vatican. Most recently it was Pope John Paul II who, together with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, is credited for accelerating the process that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union that the selfsame Stalin led for decades.
Папа Римский завершил свое эпохальное турне по Ираку, где проповедовал мир
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Papa Francis, Irak taki temaslarının ardından İtalya ya döndü
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