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  Honouring suffering, building bridges: Papal trip to Iraq has dual focus

  Mar 05, 2021

  Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing security concerns, Pope Francis is determined to visit Iraq to pay homage to Christian and other minorities persecuted for their faith and to strengthen the commitment of the overwhelming majority of Iraqi Muslims to creating a future of peace and harmony.

  
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  Iraq trip is opportunity for Pope to build rapport with Shiite Muslims

  Mar 05, 2021

  As Pope Francis continues his efforts to encourage and personally engage in interreligious dialogue, his planned March trip to Iraq will be an opportunity to extend a hand to the Shiite Muslim community.

  
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  Pandemic, terror threats: Iraq papal trip is complicated, even for Francis

  Feb 27, 2021

  Traveling during an ongoing global pandemic. Heading to a country where suicide bombings are a threat. Preparing for the first meeting between a pope and one of the world's leading Muslim clerics.

  
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  Iraq: Full of historic sites important to understanding Christianity

  Feb 27, 2021

  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.”

  
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  Radio Vaticana at 90: Keeping up with the times, never forgetting who we are

  Feb 20, 2021

  Celebrating Vatican Radio’s 90th anniversary, Seàn Patrick Lovett, one of the radio's historic voices, shines the spotlight on five papacies and reflects on the power and the intimacy of this unique medium.

  
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  Pastoral Letter: In conjunction with International Day of Human Fraternity

  Feb 06, 2021

  His Holiness Pope Francis, in his latest encyclical Fratelli Tutti(On Fraternity and Social Friendship, issued on 3 October 2020, had put forth a concrete invitation to the whole human family calling for fraternity and social friendship that concerns every man and woman, believer or non-believer. The Holy Father proposes a vision where no one should face life in isolation but to work towards a single human family in which we are brothers and sisters.

  
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  World must realise common humanity or fall apart

  Feb 06, 2021

  The world must begin to realize its shared humanity in order to live peacefully, otherwise it risks falling apart in endless conflicts, Pope Francis s

  
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  Consecrated men and women urged to place Fratelli Tutti at the centre of their lives

  Jan 30, 2021

  We draw close to you on the eve of a day dear to us, and to all consecrated men arid women, a day dedicated to our wonderful vocation that makes God’s love for men, women and the entire universe shine forth in various ways.

  
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  What Joe Biden (and all American Catholics) owe Jesuit John Courtney Murray

  Jan 23, 2021

  It is not a coincidence that a prominent U.S. Jesuit, the Rev. Leo J. O’Donovan, former president of Georgetown University, will deliver the invocation at the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the second Catholic president in the history of the United States.

  
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  Week of Prayer for Christian Unity — January 18-25, 2021: Abide in my love and you shall bear much fruit (cf. Jn 15:5-9)

  Jan 15, 2021

  The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in 2021 was prepared by the Monastic Community of Grandchamp. The theme that was chosen,“Abide in my love and y