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Pope to visit Iraq

The Vatican announced yesterday that Pope Francis will travel to Iraq nest year. He will be the first pope to visit a country still recovering from the devastation inflicted by the ISIS. The four-day papal trip (March 5-8) will include stops in Baghdad, Erbil, and Mosul. It will be the pope’s first international trip since the onset of COVID-19. [1]