It's an ambitious proposal the pope gave civil authorities. He was welcomed with full honors.
The meeting was held in the holy city of Najaf, the third most important city for Shia Muslims.
“Together we subsist through the war's ruins on the same soil. Our blood was mixed, together we tasted the bitterness of the embargo, we have the same identity,” shared a Mandaean woman during the interreligious meeting in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Pope Francis celebrated Mass using the Chaldean rite. The liturgy took place at the cathedral of St. Joseph, with the small Christian community still in Iraq.
