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1 day ago · After his speech, Pope Francis spoke about the Church’s first celebration of World Children’s Day, hosted in Rome May 25-26, and about meeting Ukrainian children who were injured in the war. “War is always cruelty; these children must start to walk (with artificial legs), to move with artificial arms; they have lost their smile,” he said.
3 days ago · Friday, March 5: Baghdad. Speech at Presidential Palace. Upon arrival at Baghdad International Airport, the pope is scheduled to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi at the airport before visiting Iraqi President Barham Salih at the presidential palace, where the pope will give a speech to a gathering of civil authorities.
4 days ago · Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda said the first-ever visit by a pope is eagerly awaited by a people that continues to feel the effects of the Islamic State’s campaign to eradicate the country’s 2,000-year-old Christian presence. By Edward Pentin, December 12, 2020.
5 days ago · Pope Francis asks children gathered in Rome’s stadium for the first World Children's Day (WCD) to pray for their peers who are suffering from war and injustice and encourages them to continue dreaming for a better future. By Lisa Zengarini.
2 days ago · Pope Francis apologized on Tuesday after he reportedly used a homophobic slur while reiterating his opposition to gay people becoming priests during a private discussion on the matter with bishops last week. “There is already too much frociaggine” in seminaries, Francis has been quoted as saying, using an Italian word that roughly ...
5 days ago · Yet even here, there is a particular style, an imitation of Jesus and a vicinanza, a nearness, like the words of Pope John in that moonlight speech. Francis traveled to war-torn Iraq, the...
3 days ago · Gollnisch points out that Pope Francis is making the first papal visit in history to Iraq in order to meet all the people in the country -- not just the Christians.
