In the Vatican, we do not know how to characterize this 33rd trip of Pope Francis.
His destination, Iraq, where he travels from Friday to Monday, is causing some concern in terms of security and health.
"We are not going to put in competition the most risky journeys of the Pope"
tempered, this Tuesday, Matteo Bruni, spokesman for the Vatican.
He assured,
"without minimizing the risks"
, that
"all precautions have been taken"
.
"This trip is the result of an emergency, that of an act of extreme love that Pope Francis wants to bring to Christians and to all the inhabitants of this country to remind them that we are all brothers",
he added. .
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In Baghdad, the Iraqi Dominican Amir Jajé, one of the organizers of the visit, admits that the event was almost postponed.
Notably after the double suicide bombing of January 21 in the capital - 32 dead, 110 wounded, claimed by the Islamic State organization - and after rocket fire at an American base on February 16 in Erbil,
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