The Vatican announced today (December 7, 2020) that Pope Francis will travel to Iraq in March 2021, according to the National Catholic Register website.
He will be the first pope to ever visit the country, which is still recovering from the devastation inflicted by the Islamic State (IS).
The four-day papal trip to Iraq March 5--8 will include stops in Baghdad, Erbil, and Mosul.
The pope will also visit the Christian communities in the Nineveh plain, which were ravaged by the Islamic State from 2014 to 2016, causing a plethora of Christians to flee the region.
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