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COVID-19 cases rising in Iraq as pope set to visit

A medical team member sprays disinfectant on a person believed to have the coronavirus as he is being brought to a hospital in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, Feb. 25, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Alaa Al-Marjani) Vatican City A week before Pope Francis was scheduled to arrive in Iraq, the Vatican nuncio in Baghdad and several members of the staff tested positive for COVID-19 and began self-isolating. The embassy confirmed the news Feb. 28, after the nuncio, Archbishop Mitja Leskovar, told the news agency Reuters that although he was experiencing light symptoms and was in self-isolation, the pope s visit was going ahead. Francis is scheduled to visit Iraq March 5-8. He usually stays at the nunciature when he visits a country. Italian news reports said those in Baghdad who tested positive had moved out of the residence and it was being sanitized.

Iraq: Full of historic sites important to understanding Christianity

By Dale Gavlak Pope Francis hopes to embark on the first-ever papal visit to the biblical land of Iraq in early March in a spiritual pilgrimage of sorts to the place known in Arabic as the “land of the two rivers” the mighty Tigris and Euphrates and once renowned as Mesopotamia, the “cradle of civilization.” The Garden of Eden is believed possibly to have been in ancient Iraq, but certainly the famed Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel were located there. Jews exiled to ancient Iraq in Old Testament times, such as the prophet Daniel, experienced God’s miraculous grace; Daniel was rescued from the lion’s den and his friends from the fiery furnace.

Iraq: Full of historic sites important to understanding Christianity

Iraq: Full of historic sites important to understanding Christianity
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Iraq: Full of historic sites important to understanding Christianity

Iraq: Full of historic sites important to understanding Christianity
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