In his autobiography to be published in January, the pope reveals during his 2021 trip to Iraq, the authorities intercepted two possible attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One was a young female suicide bomber who wanted to blow herself up during Pope Francis' visit to Mosul. The second was a van loaded with explosives. The pontiff reveals in this autobiography that the British secret services informed the Vatican security of these attempted attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Iraqi police intercepted them and, as Pope Francis recalls, everything suggests that they took them down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The trip to Iraq was very important for Pope Francis, who described it as \u2018emblematic\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE FRANCIS The pope wanted to visit the country for two reasons: it would be an opportunity to strengthen ties with Shia Islam and to show his closeness to Christians who had suffered persecution from ISIS, or Islamic State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The two attempted attacks on the Pope's life during his trip to Iraq in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":73592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27,24,153],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZMtfl9qSepw","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/battentatoiraqeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/battentatoiraqint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591"}],"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=73591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73595,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591\/revisions\/73595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>I am happy to resume travelling, and this is an emblematic journey. It is also a duty to a land that has been tormented for so many years.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n