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Mar 4, 2021 · Vatican City, Mar 4, 2021 / 04:00 am. A day before he departs for Baghdad, Pope Francis sent a video message to the Iraqi people, saying that he was coming to Iraq as "a pilgrim of peace."
- A Wonderful Mosaic For Human Coexistence
- We Are All Brothers
- A Milestone For Interreligious Dialogue
- Rebuilding Iraq
The Secretary-General of the Higher Committee, Judge Mohamed Abdelsalam, opened the webinar, explaining, “We are gathered here today to think together about how we can invest this visit of the Pope and help our brethren in beloved Iraq, a country that constitutes a beautiful social fabric and a wonderful mosaic for human coexistence.” This beautifu...
Among the keynote speakers at the webinar was Cardinal Luis Raphaël I Sako, the Patriarch of Babylon and head of the Chaldean Catholic Church. He expressed his hope that participants would “reach a vision and a work plan to implement what the Pope indicated in his speeches and meetings.” Cardinal Sako explained that Pope Francis, coming to Iraq in ...
The President of the Pontifical Council for Intereligious Dialogue, Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, said, “The entire trip to Iraq was significant. Every moment was marked by gestures and words that leave a mark.” Along with the signing of the Document on Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi in 2019, the Iraq visit was a “milestone in the path of inte...
Thursday’s webinar also included the Assistant Director-General of UNESCO, Ernesto Ottone Ramirez who, along with Dominican Father Olivier Poquillon, highlighted UNESCO’s “Revive the Spirit of Mosul” initiative. Culture ministers from Iraq and the UAE emphasized the common challenges facing the peoples of the region. Representatives of Iraq’s Islam...
Mar 6, 2021 · Pope Francis, now the first pope to set foot in Iraq, hopes to bring consolation, healing and peace to a people devastated by war. A meeting between the minarets and the bell-towers is how the ...
Dec 15, 2020 · Pope Francis goes to Iraq at a time when his predecessors were unable to do so due to the complexities of the pressing conditions that prevailed recently, including wars, sectarian violence, terrorist attacks, and the complexities of the political affairs in that fraternal country. Pope John Paul II had an earnest wish to visit Iraq in 1999 ...
Mar 6, 2021 · The Patriarch Abraham, who today brings us together in unity, was a prophet of the Most High. An ancient prophecy says that the peoples “shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks” (Is 2:4). This prophecy has not been fulfilled; on the contrary, swords and spears have turned into missiles and bombs.
Mar 5, 2021 · People line a road for the visit of Pope Francis in Baghdad, Iraq on March 5, 2021. Pope Francis started his three-day official visit Iraq, the first ever papal visit to the country. Vatican Media ...
Pope Francis will definitely send a message for the pursuit of paths of peace, dialogue, fraternity, cooperation and constructive cooperation among the various politicians in Iraq in order to rebuild a strong modern Iraqi state after years of hard and bitter wars, sectarian squabbles, and attacks by terrorist groups, so as to restore the spirit ...
