Beyond piety and PR: What Pope Francis must bring to Iraq
In Mosul, the Pope will pray at a memorial for victims of Islamic State [Getty] Date of publication: 5 March, 2021 Share this page:
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Go back for a minute to the year 2000 when Pope John-Paul II was getting ready to visit Iraq during the celebrations of the Jubilee Year. Like Pope Francis, he too had accepted an invitation by the Catholic bishops of Iraq to visit the country but the negotiations between the Vatican and Iraqi authorities faltered and the pontifical visit never took place.
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