For Iraqi Christians, pope’s visit was a rare moment of hope - The Rahnuma Daily

For Iraqi Christians, pope’s visit was a rare moment of hope - The Rahnuma Daily

For Iraqi Christians, pope’s visit was a rare moment of hope BAGHDAD(RAHNUMA): The death of Pope Francis has sent shockwaves through Iraq’s Christian community, where his presence once brought hope after one of the darkest chapters in the country’s recent history. His 2021 visit to Iraq, the first ever by a pope, came after years of conflict and displacement. Just a few years before that, many Iraqi Christians had fled their homes as Daesh milit…