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Pope Francis has made an impassioned call for an end to militant violence in Iraq during the first ever papal visit to the country and his first international trip since the start of pandemic.

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The Pope issued his plea for peace while addressing the Iraqi president, politicians and diplomats at the presidential palace in Baghdad. The nation's capital is the first stop on his three-day tour of four cities. Iraq's Christian population has dropped more than 80 per cent in the past two decades.

 

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