The hopes of the Christians of Baghdeda (Qaraqosh) for the papal visit to Iraq in March 2021

Iraq, diocese of Mossul-SIR: Fadi Saqat, 24, (ACN Iraq Project Administrative Coordinator) walking through a street with damaged buildings in Qaraqosh/ Baghdeda. He told to ACN what the papal visit to Iraq in March 2021 means to him: » The papal visit will lift up our spirits and morale more than anything else. All the eyes of the world will be on Baghdeda. And in this way the world will know what happened to this city. The terrible destruction and the forcible ethnic cleansing. It will also be a good thing if afterwards we get more support and help.

Credit: ACN/ F. Essa