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Detroit-area Chaldean Catholics call pope’s Iraq trip ‘beautiful to see’
Chaldean Catholics celebrate Mass at Mother of God Chaldean Church in Southfield, Mich., in 2019. The Detroit metro area is home to more than 100,000 Chaldean Catholics. (CNS photo/Jonathan Francis via Detroit Catholic)
By Daniel Meloy • Catholic News Service • Posted March 10, 2021
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (CNS) Metro Detroit’s Chaldean Catholic community hopes Pope Francis’ recently completed pastoral visit to Iraq strengthens and restores some of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
The pontiff visited the war-torn Middle Eastern country March 5-8, including the capital city, Baghdad, as well as Mosul and the Ninevah Plain region in the country’s north.
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Pope Francis speaks while seated on the podium at the square near the ruins of the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (al-Tahira-l-Kubra), in the old city of Iraq s northern Mosul on March 7, 2021. | AFP via Getty Images/ZAID AL-OBEIDI
Pope Francis visited the ruins of Mosul and a Christian community damaged by the Islamic State during the third day of his historic visit to Iraq Sunday. The day earlier, the pontiff visited the birthplace of Abraham, met with a prominent Shia cleric and gave a sermon in Baghdad.
“How cruel it is that this country, the cradle of civilization, should have been afflicted by so barbarous a blow, with ancient places of worship destroyed,” the 84-year-old pope said Sunday, according to Reuters, as he met with Muslim and Christian residents in a destroyed portion of Mosul Sunday.