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Pope celebrates largest mass of historic Iraq trip

By AFP
March 08, 2021

Arbil, Iraq: Pope Francis held the largest mass of his historic Iraq trip on Sunday after visiting war-scarred cities to comfort Christian survivors of the Islamic State group’s reign of terror. The pontiff was greeted by thousands in a sports stadium in the Kurdistan region’s capital Arbil who had gathered despite fears the event could become a Covid-19 "super-spreader".