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Global Headlines Pope Francis to visit Iraq next year
Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 07 Dec 2020, 06:13 am Print
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Rome/Sputnik: Pope Francis will pay an official visit to Iraq from Mar 5-8, 2021, Vatican press office chief Matteo Bruni said on Monday.
"[Pope Francis] will visit Baghdad, the Plain of Ur, linked to Abraham, the city of Erbiil, as well as Mosul and Qaraqosh in the Plain of Nineveh [on March 5-8," Bruni said, as cited by the Ansa news agency.
According to the spokesman, the visit, initiated by the Iraqi authorities and the local Catholic Church as a "message of peace," will take place given the epidemiological situation in the world.
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