href=”http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/travels/2021/outside/documents/papa-francesco-iraq-2021.html”> apostolic journey to Iraq in March 2021.

The Pope’s “historic visit was a blessing to all Iraqis,” said Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church. “It has charged Iraqis with enough support and hope to achieve their desire in having a life of solidarity, compassion and dignity.”