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Pope Francis meets a crowd of Catholic faithful before conducting the final mass of his trip to Mongolia at the "Steppe Arena" hockey stadium, on a visit that has seen him seek to build bridges with neighbouring China. IMAGES
Baghdad, Mar 5 (EFE), (Camera: Cristina Cabrejas).- Pope Francis arrived in Baghdad on Friday for the first ever papal visit to Iraq, and his first trip abroad since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year.He will meet members of the country’s Christian minority community which was persecuted by the Islamic State that occupied parts of Iraq for three years until the terror group was defeated in late 2017.Sectarian violence in the war-torn country has seen Iraq’s Christian population fall from 1.5 million in 2003 to just 300,000.FOOTAGE OF POPE FRANCIS ON BOARD OF THE PLANE THAT TOOK HIM TO IRAQ ON FRIDAY.
The Pope married two flight attendants in a mid-air wedding on a plane during his trip to Chile on Thursday. Bride Paula Podest and groom Carlos Ciuffardi said "I do" after Francis agreed to conduct the ceremony on the flight from Santiago to Iquique. They had been married in a civil service in 2010 but had been unable to follow up with a church ceremony because of the Feb. 27, 2010, earthquake that rocked Chile. The wedding certificate was drafted and signed on an airline sheet of paper. Vatican officials stated the episode marked the first time a pontiff ever married a couple on a papal plane.
Pope Francis asks for prayers ahead of Latin American trip in early July as Ecuador prepares it's welcome amid hopes of a tourism boost from the Pontiff. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives at the Vatican to meet Pope Francis, who on Saturday said he was suffering from bronchitis. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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