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And it will be at the forefront of its future, the president of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani, and a large number of government officials, and representatives of political, religious and social forces, and of various components in Iraqi Kurdistan.
To explore the details of the last day of the papal visit, we contacted the media coordinator for the Pope’s visit to the Kurdistan region in Iraq, Zain Anwar, and said: “The importance of the Supreme Pope’s visit to Erbil, especially in the mass that he will celebrate in it, being the largest and final ceremonial mass of his tour which considered a pilgrimage to a country between the two rivers, where about 10 thousand participants will attend.
He continued: “After your arrival and reception, officially at Erbil International Airport, you will depart by helicopter for Mosul, to visit some churches destroyed by ISIS terrorists, especially the Great Al-Tahira Church in Qarqosh, which is the most important church. great of Iraq., which His Holiness the Pope will visit and bless for the first time. After its destruction by the terrorist organization ISIS, and the prayer will be held in the courtyard of the church in Mosul, and the people will be blessed there, and there will be there will be no ceremonial prayer or mass in the city of Mosul. ”
The media coordinator of the Pope’s visit to the Iraqi Kurdistan region, concluding his speech on the “Sky News Arabia” website, thanked the United Arab Emirates saying: “We are here, appreciating the role of the UAE in the rebuilding and restoring destroyed churches in Iraq, especially in the Mosul region, which you will visit. “His Holiness inspects you, and we greatly appreciate your role and initiatives in supporting peace, coexistence and religious tolerance in Iraq. and the region in general “.
He continues: “The Pope will also visit some other places in Mosul, where there were victims at the hands of ISIS terrorists, where he will pray for the rest of their souls, bless those places and return to Erbil, where he will visit the beginning of the Ankawa district. at 2 pm, and will celebrate the festive divine mass at 4 pm The largest of his Iraqi tour, in the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
With the return from Erbil to Baghdad, the Pope’s visit, which lasted 4 days by bus, has ended. In Baghdad, the capital from which the Pope began his visit, he organized a prayer at the Church of Our Lady of Liberation. , and a mass in the Cathedral of San José, and he addressed his speech to Iraqis, during his official reception ceremony at the presidential palace, urging coexistence and peace and the rejection of violence and extremism.
On the second day of his visit, he met with the Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani, in the city of Najaf, in a meeting, the first of its kind, between the head of the Catholic Church and the Shiite leader in Iraq, and later At Najaf station, he visited the ancient city of Ur, staying there to pray and learn about religions, in the presence of various representatives of Iraqi religions and beliefs.
Following the Pope’s tour in Najaf and Ur, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi posted a tweet on Twitter, stating: “On the occasion of the historic meeting between the poles of peace and tolerance, His Eminence, the Leader Supreme Ali al-Sistani and His Holiness Pope Francis, and the interfaith gathering in the historic city of Ur, we announce By naming the sixth day of March each year as a national day for tolerance and coexistence in Iraq.
It is noteworthy that the Pope’s visit to Iraq is the first papal visit abroad, since the outbreak of the new Crown epidemic.
