Pope Francis will travel to Iraq in March 2021, the Vatican press office announced on Monday.
His trip to the war-torn country could be his first outside of Italy since the coronavirus pandemic began. Francis is set to "visit Baghdad, linked to the memory of Abraham, the city of Erbil, as well as Mosul and Qaraqosh in the plain of Nineveh" from March 5-8, the Vatican communique said.
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