.Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni and Cardinal Louis Sako of Baghdad pray outside Ibn Khatib hospital in Baghdad April 25, 2021, after a fire the previous day caused by an oxygen tank explosion. At least 82 people were killed by the fire. (CNS photo/courtesy Chaldean patriarchate) Editors: best quality available. .Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni and Cardinal Louis Sako of Baghdad pray outside Ibn Khatib hospital in Baghdad April 25, 2021, after a fire the previous day caused by an oxygen tank explosion. At least 82 people were killed by the fire. (CNS photo/courtesy Chaldean patriarchate) Editors: best quality available. .A patient suffering from COVID-19 is prepared for evacuation in an ambulance outside Ibn Khatib hospital April 25, 2021, after a fire caused by an oxygen tank explosion in Baghdad. (CNS photo/Thaier Al-Sudani, Reuters)
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Debris from a dinghy which was supposedly carrying over 100 migrants are seen floating in the Mediterranean Sea northeast of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, Thursday, April 22, 2021. SOS Mediterranee, which operates the rescue vessel Ocean Viking, said late Thursday that the wreck of a rubber boat, which was initially carrying around 130 people, was spotted in the Mediterranean Sea. The aid vessel did not find any survivors, but could see at least ten bodies near the wreck, the group added in a statement. (Flavio Gasperini/SOS Mediterranee via AP)
VATICAN CITY (CNS) In the wake of a deadly fire in a Baghdad hospital treating COVID-19 patients and more migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea, Pope Francis prayed for the victims of the disasters and their families.
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The Tablet April 14, 2021
Pope Francis walks next to Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad, right, as he arrives to celebrate Mass at the Chaldean Catholic Cathedral of St. Joseph in Baghdad March 6, 2021. Cardinal Sako offered suggestions for ways Iraqis can put into action what the pope preached while in the country in March. (Photo: CNS/Paul Haring)
By Elise Ann Allen
ROME (CRUX) Pope Francis sent a letter to Iraqi Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako voicing thanks for his visit to Iraq last month and praising the local church for its charitable activities and its role in working to rebuild the country.