Pope Francis holds his weekly General Audience in the Library of the Vatican�s Apostolic Palace on March 3rd, 2021.

Pope Francis holds his weekly General Audience in the Library of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace on March 3rd, 2021.

The pope said that he felt “honored to meet a martyr Church,” and expressed gratitude to Christians in Iraq “who have witnessed to their faith in Jesus in the midst of very hard trials.”