ArmInfo.Pope Francis During his historical trip to Iraq, visited the northern regions of the country, previously under the control of the grouping "Islamic state". As an Argentine journalist, a dedicator and head of the Crux newspaper in Rome Ines San Martin Francis in Mosul, visited ISIL Syrian Orthodox, Armenian and Catholic Church destroyed in his microblog in Twitter.
Speaking in the midst of creaseable Ruins of the four, who were in the Cathedral Square of the Churches destroyed by Islamists, Dad Francis with bitterness noted that the mass exodus of Christians from Iraq and in general from the Middle East caused immeasurable damage not only to citizens and their communities, but also the whole society that they Lean. At the same time, he called on Christians forced to flee from there to return to his native places.
The four-day Visit of the Pope is his first foreign trip after the start of the coronavirus pandemic and the first in the history of the Roman Pontific in Iraq.
Recall that the Armenian Church in Mosul was destroyed by terrorists in 2017.