He expressed his prayer that the journey would obtain the “hoped-for fruits on the trail of human brotherhood”.
Dr Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al Azhar and Chairman of the Council of Muslim Elders, has praised the go to of Pope Francis, Head of the Catholic Church, to Iraq describing it as “historic and brave”.
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In a tweet, he mentioned, “The historic and brave go to of my brother Pope Francis to Iraq carries a message of peace, solidarity and assist for all of the Iraqi individuals. I pray for his success that this journey will obtain the hoped-for fruits on the trail of human brotherhood.”
My brother @Pontifex’s historic and brave go to to Iraq sends a message of peace, solidarity, and assist to all Iraqi individuals. I pray to Almighty Allah to grant him success and that his journey achieves the specified consequence to proceed on the trail of human fraternity.
— (@alimamaltayeb) March 5, 2021
The pontiff’s landmark go to has been months within the making and is the primary papal go to to Iraq, one which eluded his predecessors.
He brings a message of peace and coexistence to consolation the nation’s deep-rooted Christian minority, a lot of whom fled the nation within the successive conflicts that adopted the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
His journey will start in Baghdad, the place he is because of ship speeches and have fun Mass within the capital’s church buildings, and canopy the holy metropolis of Najaf, the plains of Ur in Nassiryah province, in addition to Mosul and Irbil within the north.