Papal Iraq Visit News
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Vietnam and ASEAN to help India cope with devastating COVID-19 surge
May 03, 2021
Vietnam’s deputy foreign minister and India’s ambassador meet in Hanoi, pledging to renew mutual support. Shipping oxygen, medicines, drugs and equipment is under consideration. About a thousand Vietnamese nationals have been repatriated in the past few days. ASEAN and India expect bilateral trade to reach US0 billion next year.
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Iraqi PM declares national day of tolerance in honour of papal meeting with top Shiite cleric
Mar 13, 2021
Iraq’s prime minister on Saturday declared March 6 a National Day of Tolerance and Coexistence in honor of Pope Francis’ landmark meeting with the country’s top Shiite cleric.
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‘Universal message’ of fraternity from Iraq’s top Shiite cleric and Pope
Mar 13, 2021
On his flight to Rome from Baghdad on Monday, Pope Francis said that Iraq’s top Shiite cleric is a “humble and wise man,” and their March 6 meeting had a “universal message” about the importance of fraternity.
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Historic prayer book saved from Islamic State returned to the Nineveh Plains
Mar 13, 2021
During his trip to Iraq, Pope Francis returned a historic Aramaic prayer manuscript which was restored after the Islamic State desecrated the Catholic church where it was once held.
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The name of God cannot be used to justify acts of murder
Mar 13, 2021
In his first speech in Iraq, Pope Francis called for an end to violence and extremism so that ordinary Iraqis can live, work, and pray in peace.
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Prayer of the Children of Abraham
Mar 13, 2021
At the end of the interreligious meeting on March 6, those present recited a “Prayer of the Children of Abraham.”
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This is the pure Gospel’: Pope moved by Iraqi Christians’ witness
Mar 13, 2021
Pope Francis said that the sight of the destroyed churches and ruins in Mosul and the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq left him speechless.
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Papal Mass in Erbil ‘nothing short of a miracle’
Mar 13, 2021
When Vida Hanna was told by the Archbishop Bashar Warda of the Chaldean Archeparchy of Erbil that Pope Francis was coming to Iraq, she thought to herself it was just another rumor.
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Pope appeals for interreligious harmony at birthplace of Abraham
Mar 13, 2021
Pope Francis on Saturday, March 6, appealed for harmony among the followers of the world’s major monotheistic religions at an interreligious meeting in the Plain of Ur, southern Iraq.
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Pope Francis meets with father whose children died as refugees in shipwreck
Mar 13, 2021
Pope Francis met Mar 7 with a father who lost his wife and two children in a shipwreck as Syrian war refugees.
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