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Crystal Jabiro spent hours glued to her computer screen at the weekend. Her eyes transfixed by the images of Pope Francis celebrating a Mass inside the Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in Baghdad, Iraq.
“It was emotional and exhilarating,” said Ms Jabiro, a middle-school teacher in Bloomfield, Michigan
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“To see the pope in the land of my ancestors, where no pope has ever journeyed, was simply magical.”
Ms Jabiro is one of more than an estimated 160,000 Iraqi Chaldeans living in Michigan. Crystal Jabiro works at her kitchen table in August 2020. The Chaldean American was thrilled by Pope Francis trip to Iraq. Sophie Tremblay / The National