<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis" id="mwAXE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> begins a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pastoral_visits_of_Pope_Francis" id="mwAXI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of pastoral visits of Pope Francis">historical visit to Iraq</a><sup about="#mwt123" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"}}' id="cite_ref-21" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_5#cite_note-21" id="mwAXM" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 21;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXQ">[21]</span></a></sup> amidst the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" id="mwAXU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<sup about="#mwt127" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-22"}}' id="cite_ref-22" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_5#cite_note-22" id="mwAXY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 22;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXc">[22]</span></a></sup>
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