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The visit was accorded on following an invitation of the Government of Iraq and the Chaldean Catholic Church. The visit was remembered as an attempt to mend bridges between the different faiths in Iraq. During this first ever journey to Iraq by a Pontifex, Pope Francis visited the cities of Ur, Baghdad, Najaf, Qaraqosh, Erbil and Mosul. [1]
Pastoral visits of Pope Francis. This is a list of pastoral visits of Pope Francis.His visit to the Philippines in January 2015 included the largest papal event in history with around 6–7 million attendees in his final Mass at Manila, surpassing the then-largest papal event at World Youth Day 1995 in the same venue twenty years earlier.
List of pastoral visits of Pope Francis; Visit by Pope Francis to Ireland; State visit by Pope Francis to Kenya; 2015 visit by Pope Francis to North America; Visit by Pope Francis to the Philippines; 2018 visit by Pope Francis to the Baltic states
Pope Francis arrived in Iraq on Friday to urge the country’s dwindling number of Christians to stay put and help rebuild the country after years of war and persecution, brushing aside the ...
Pope Francis arrived in Baghdad on Friday, beginning a three-day tour of the country to boost the fading Christian community and promote interfaith harmony. It's the pope's first overseas trip ...
Francis’ visit marked the first time a pope went to Iraq, during which he visited six cities and multiple biblical locations and met with former Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, top ...
Pope Francis visited North America—Cuba and the United States—from 19 to 27 September 2015. [1] [2] It was his first state visit to both Cuba and the U.S., [3] as well as the third official papal visit to Cuba and the seventh to the United States since the U.S. established full diplomatic relations with the Holy See in 1984.
Francis’ visit to Iraq was the first by a pontiff to the country, and was considered a very high-risk journey, both for security reasons and due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.