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Pope Francis To Arrive In Iraq, As The PMU Will Protect Him In Mosul

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Pope Francis To Arrive In Iraq, As The PMU Will Protect Him In Mosul

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On March 5th, Pope Francis will arrive in Iraq, for the first ever papal visit to the country.

This also marks his first international trip since the beginning of the pandemic almost exactly a year ago.

Addressing the Iraqi people in a video message on the eve of his trip, Pope Francis said he was “coming as a pilgrim, as a penitent pilgrim, to implore from the Lord forgiveness and reconciliation after years of war and terrorism, to beg from God the consolation of hearts and the healing of wounds”.

He continued: “I am coming among you also as a pilgrim of peace… seeking fraternity and prompted by the desire to pray together and to walk together, also with our brothers and sisters of other religious traditions, in the steps of Father Abraham, who joins in one family Muslims, Jews and Christians.”

The Pope told Iraqi Christians: “I want to bring you the affectionate caress of the whole Church, which is close to you and to the war-torn Middle East, and encourages you to keep moving forward.”

The Pope will be welcomed by Iraq’s prime minister and president before meeting bishops and other clergy at a Syriac Catholic church in the capital, Our Lady of Salvation, where 52 Christians and police were killed in an attack by jihadists from a precursor group to IS in 2010.

On March 6th, the Pope will fly south to the Shia holy city of Najaf, where he will visit Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The 90-year-old is the prime marja, or spiritual reference, for millions of Shia in Iraq and elsewhere.

Pope Francis will then attend an interreligious meeting at the ancient site of Ur, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham.

On March 7th, will see him travel to the northern city of Mosul. He will say a prayer of suffrage in Church Square for the victims of the war with IS, which left tens of thousands of civilians dead.

The Pope will also visit nearby Qaraqosh, where Christians have returned since the defeat of IS in 2017 to restore the town’s church and rebuild their homes.

That afternoon, he will celebrate Mass at a stadium in Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, which thousands of people may attend.

Security of the Pope is of paramount importance, in areas that where central to the ISIS Caliphate.

To that purpose, his protection will be left in the hands of approximately 10,000 Iraqi security personnel.

The most significant part, that would protect him from any harm comes from fighters that are part of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).

The PMU is one of the key fighters against ISIS, and most of the groups comprising it are backed by Iran.

A spokesperson for the PMU said that it “is participating in the process of securing the visit of Pope Francis.”

And the fighters will be doing so “specifically in Mosul,” the largest city once held by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), according to the spokesperson. Here, they’ll be “securing the churches” in what’s likely to be one of the most iconic stretches of Francis’ journey, the spokesperson said.

The US frequently accuses the PMU of carrying attacks on its convoys and static positions, with the Iraqi forces denying.

The Biden Administration even carried out its first strikes on units of the PMU along the Iraq-Syria border, and have since received several retaliations of unknown origin.

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shylockracy

The Catholic church is a terrorist Ziocorporate globalist entity and it’s disgraceful that the PMU is going be used to protect that scum Jesuit pope, but alas, if they took him out and dumped him to sleep with the fish in the Euphrates, his pestilence would pollute the whole Persian gulf.

Clarence Spangle

“The fairies, in what nation soever they converse, have but one universal king, which some poets of ours call King Oberon; but the Scripture calls Beelzebub, prince of demons. The ecclesiastics likewise, in whose dominions soever they be found, acknowledge but one universal king, the Pope.”—Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, 1651 https://thetablet.org/knights-of-malta-chief-migrant-deaths-represent-greatest-mass-grave-since-ww2/# #holohoax

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Icarus Tanović

Indeed it is.

Lazy Gamer

Well the Bible is heavily influenced by Babylonian culture. He really is a pilgrim going there.

Clarence Spangle

“The fairies, in what nation soever they converse, have but one universal king, which some poets of ours call King Oberon; but the Scripture calls Beelzebub, prince of demons. The ecclesiastics likewise, in whose dominions soever they be found, acknowledge but one universal king, the Pope.”

—Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, 1651

Arch Bungle

I find this anti-fairy propaganda racist and offensive!

christianblood

Hahaha! A great point!

Clarence Spangle

In Russia and abroad in the late nineteenth century, not only Bundists but other Khazar Jews had been attracted to the writings of Karl Marx (1818-1883), partly, it seems, because he was Jewish in origin… “On both paternal and maternal sides Karl Marx was descended from rabbinical families.”—Univ. Jew. Encyc., Vol. VII, p. 289

The Marxian program of drastic controls, so repugnant to the free western mind, was no obstacle to the acceptance of Marxism by many Khazar Jews, for the Babylonian Talmud under which they lived had taught then to accept authoritarian dictation on everything from their immorality to their trade practices. Since the Talmud contained more than 12,000 controls, the regimentation of Marxism was acceptable — provided the Khazar politician, like the Talmudic rabbi, exercised the power of the dictatorship.

Hasbara Hunter

The Greatest Trick the DEVIL ever pulled was convincing the World he didn’t exist.

Pope Francis said he was “Coming as the Dajjal, as the penitent False Prophet, to implore from the Lord forgiveness and reconciliation after years of Inquisitions, Witchburning, War and Terrorism, to beg from God the consolation of hearts and the healing of wounds which the Roman Catholic Church has caused throughout the Centuries”.

Opus Dei

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Kenny Jones ™

The Christians of Iraq will reject him

Clarence Spangle

“When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.”—Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, 1651

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Arch Bungle

My understanding is that the Dajjal will come out of Khorasan with a race of people who have faces like “beaten shields”. That he will have deformed eyes and a funny walk. That his hair will be light and curly …

This is if my reading of Islamic eschatology is correct …

Hasbara Hunter

Yeah….them AngloZioNazis are Illiterate Turds…can’t read maps & dropped the “Pope” at the wrong LZ….

Kenny Jones ™

The pope is a child molester, I hope he is “accidentally” rocketed by the Iraqi resistance

Clarence Spangle

[26] The fairies are not to be seized on, and brought to answer for the hurt they do. So also the ecclesiastics vanish away from the tribunals of civil justice.

[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.

[28] In what shop or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. But the operatories of the clergy are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontifical.

[29] When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.

[30] The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994. Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth

Clarence Spangle

[26] The fairies are not to be seized on, and brought to answer for the hurt they do. So also the ecclesiastics vanish away from the tribunals of civil justice.

[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.

[29] When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.

[30] The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994. Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth

Arch Bungle

Following in the fine tradition of Catholic popes, he follows the latest crusade to the Holy Lands …

Clarence Spangle

“For from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succsession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy (or kingdom of darkness) may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies (that is, to the old wives’ fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits and the feats they play in the night). And if a man consider the original of this ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start out of the ruins of that heathen power.”—Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, 1651 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2016d6831d98e7d1401621d45e1b1231559bdf3242eb7a93abe7040ea902f58d.jpg

Arch Bungle

Awesome quote, thank you!

The Catholic Popes led wars of mass murder for more than a thousand years.

This is an inversion of Christianity and counter to the teachings of Jesus.

By observing his actions, it is clear the Catholic Popes implement the will of Satan and not the teachings of Christ.

Yes, Jesus Christ teaches to accept martyrdom in the name of God, for his teaching was not to cling to this life but to await the Kingdom of Heaven.

Rhodium 10

Shia militia protecting Christians in Syria and Iraq…while USA and Israel supporting terrorists whose main targets are the Christians….

Clarence Spangle

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christianblood

Absolutely true! Brotherly Shiite militia protects Christians in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon while the US and its Nato, Saudi and Israeli allies are arming and supporting the murderous head-chopping terrorists that are planning to exterminate Christians and other minorities.

Clarence Spangle

“When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.”—Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, 1651

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Simon Ndiritu

There has Never been fundamental disagreements between Christians and Muslims in ME, Until Britons learned ‘divide and rule’. That’s when some murderous groups rose, all with funny names and emerging wherever the US wants to have military foothold.

Clarence Spangle

[3] After that certain Churches had renounced this universal power of the Pope, one would expect, in reason, that the civil sovereigns in all those Churches should have recovered so much of it as (before they had unadvisedly let it go) was their own right and in their own hands. And in England it was so in effect; saving that they by whom the kings administered the government of religion, by maintaining their employment to be in God’s right, seemed to usurp, if not a supremacy, yet an independency on the civil power: and they but seemed to usurp it, inasmuch as they acknowledged a right in the king to deprive them of the exercise of their functions at his pleasure.

[4] But in those places where the presbytery took that office, though many other doctrines of the Church of Rome were forbidden to be taught; yet this doctrine, that the kingdom of Christ is already come, and that it began at the resurrection of our Saviour, was still retained. But cui bono? What profit did they expect from it? The same which the popes expected: to have a sovereign power over the people. For what is it for men to excommunicate their lawful king, but to keep him from all places of God’s public service in his own kingdom; and with force to resist him when he with force endeavoureth to correct them? Or what is it, without authority from the civil sovereign, to excommunicate any person, but to take from him his lawful liberty, that is, to usurp an unlawful power over their brethren? The authors therefore of this darkness in religion are the Roman and the Presbyterian clergy. (ibid.)

Rafik Chauhan

main targets where muslim and cristian.

Just Me

PMU is the popular defacto government of Iraq.

Garga

Why didn’t you mention that resistance groups signed a declaration announcing they will cease their attacks in the duration of Pope’s visit to Iraq?

It’s a very important piece of news, guys!

Like this:

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christianblood

Long Live The Ressistance! I wish them completely and quick victory!

Clarence Spangle

“The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.”—Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, 1651

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Jens Holm

He could give You the last oil:)

cechas vodobenikov

jens uses oil—boyfriend cannot afford lube?

Arch Bungle

No need, jens likes it rough.

Rafik Chauhan

But even this pope are under zionist pay. if he really wanted to save Cristioans . he should have declared jihad against terriost isil and should have told Cristioan to support ressitance to defeat terriost supported by Zioist/Whabhi scum. Cristian who really belive in Jesus (ISA) and his words should reject this pope and support muslim specially shia Ressitance to get rid of hypocrite cristian and hypcrite muslim in the world who are supporting zionist to kill children of one book.

cechas vodobenikov

if the pope could convince the fake catholic Biden to be a christian instead of an immoral atheist war criminal he would be more useful

Icarus Tanović

Stay away from Iraq, you Zionistic abomination.

Furkan Sahin

Iraq people is retard

Arch Bungle

I agree. Because they lie down like sheep and accept to be slaughtered by the Zionists.

And so, their fate will be to be slaughtered like sheep.

Furkan Sahin

many Syrians hate Assad too

Arch Bungle

At least half the people of any country in the world hate their leaders.

It’s not unique to Assad.

Even half the gog of Magog israelis hate netanyoohoo, though they voted for him.

Same for the USA.

Furkan Sahin

I know Iraq people do not like Assad and Iran

Albert Pike

Somebody may blow him up please…

Arch Bungle

There’s no point, really.

Albert Pike

Okay – a good Catholic may blow him up please…

Arch Bungle

“The crusades have now ended”

— General Edmund Allenby, 1917, The Battle of Jerusalem.

… Oh no, dear General, the Crusades are alive and well …

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