Pope Francis visits the President of the Republic in the private study of the Presidential Palace in Baghdad on March 5th, 2021.

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Pope Francis visits the President of the Republic in the private study of the Presidential Palace in Baghdad on March 5th, 2021.

Pope Francis declared in his speech to Iraqi government leaders that it is “necessary, but not sufficient, to combat the scourge of corruption, misuse of power and disregard for law.”