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Mar 6, 2021 · Pope Francis has condemned extremism in the name of religion on a historic visit to Iraq where he discussed the plight of the Christian minority.
Mar 5, 2021 · After surveying the wreckage in Mosul — once a vibrant and diverse city that was flattened in the battle to wrest control back from the Islamic State — Pope Francis issued a powerful...
Mar 7, 2021 · Pope Francis prayed to crowds in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, calling for peace and tolerance. Many of the city's churches were destroyed by IS during the occupation, which ran from...
Mar 7, 2021 · On Sunday, according to media reports, the pontiff called for peace and prayed among ruined churches for the victims of the conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which...
Mar 5, 2021 · Pope Francis has called for an end to violence and extremism, on the first ever papal visit to Iraq. The pontiff is making his first international trip since the start of the coronavirus...
Mar 6, 2021 · 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 7, 2021 · Its Christian minority has been especially afflicted, a point Francis recalls today with his visit to the Christian village of Qaraqosh that was devastated under ISIS occupation from 2014 to 2017. Certainly, Iraqis seemed to get the point.
