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The pope's historic visit to Iraq


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Andrew Bernard
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Dressed all in black and wearing a Rolex, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi slowly climbed the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al Nuri in Mosul and declared himself caliph of the Islamic State. It was June 2014, and Baghdadi was attempting to lend historical and religious legitimacy to an orgy of violence that already included beheadings and human crucifixions and would soon add genocide and mass rape-slavery.
On March 7 of this year, dressed all in white, His Holiness Pope Francis slowly climbed the steps of a temporary platform in a public square surrounded by the ruins of four churches in Mosul. Reports say that his sciatica has been bothering him, and in videos from the trip, he has an obvious limp. ....

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