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Pope Francis meets Christians in an ancient church torched by the Islamic State group when it swept into the northern Iraqi town of Qaraqosh in 2014. IMAGES
Pope Francis is welcomed by Iraqi President Barham Saleh as he arrives in the presidential palace on the first papal visit to Iraq. Pope Francis began his historic trip to war-scarred Iraq, defying security concerns and the coronavirus pandemic to comfort one of the world's oldest and most persecuted Christian communities. IMAGES TO COMPLETE WITH VIDI94C4B4_EN
Pope Francis meets Indonesia's President Joko Widodo in Jakarta in the first major set piece of his tour. The head of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics is on a three-day visit to the Muslim-majority nation before he travels to Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore on the longest trip of his papacy. IMAGES
Pope Francis, at the end of his visit to the city of Verona, attends mass at the city's Bentegodi Stadium in the presence of tens of thousands of Catholic faithful. IMAGES
Pope Francis meets with the relatives of people held hostage by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners. Israel and Hamas have announced a deal on allowing at least 50 hostages and scores of Palestinian prisoners to be freed while offering besieged Gaza residents a four-day truce after weeks of all-out war. IMAGES
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