Pope Francis had a full schedule over the weekend. On Saturday alone, he held seven official meetings. One of them was with the President of Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President and the Pope spoke for about 30 minutes. Afterwards, the traditional presentation of gifts took place. The Iraqi President gave the Pope a custom-made habit as well as a gold reproduction of the Ziggurat of Ur\u2014a staple historical and religious monument of Iraq. It was a symbolic gift, since Francis is the first ever Pope to go to Iraq and, specifically, to visit Ur, the place where Abraham left for Canaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two talked about this trip. The Iraqi President thanked the Pope for his visit to the country in 2021 and noted, according to a statement, that the trip symbolized \"peaceful coexistence between religions,\" something the Pope has continued to call for publicly after returning from Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE FRANCIS The President's visit to the Pope comes at a time when the relationship between the country and the Church is not at its best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2013, Cardinal Sako was appointed Patriarchate of Iraq. But last July, the President revoked a decree that recognized the cardinal as head of the Catholic Church in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cardinal Sako made public a statement where he described the situation as \u201cunjust\u201d and announced his decision to \u201cwithdraw from the Patriarchate in Baghdad and go to a monastery in Kurdistan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n CA The Iraqi President gave the Pope a custom-made habit as well as a gold reproduction of the Ziggurat of Ur\u2014a staple historical and religious monument of Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":62744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/o7iqzUB_IDQ","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpresidenteiraqeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpresidenteiraqint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62749,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62747\/revisions\/62749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>I follow with concern the violent events that have taken place in Baghdad in recent days. We implore God in prayer to give peace to the people of Iraq. Last year, I had the joy of visiting. I felt the near and great desire for normalcy and peaceful coexistence among the different religious communities there.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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