During his 2021 visit to Iraq, Francis traveled to the land of Abraham, the cradle of monotheism, to reaffirm faith's unifying role in a time of great displacement ... the Grand Mosque of Paris ...

According to reports, the mosque, which represents an architectural masterpiece, was said to have been built in 1925 on a piece of land donated by Oba Sodeke shortly after the Egbas had settled there.

At the centre of the unrest was a court-ordered archaeological survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid – a 16th-century mosque now claimed by Hindu petitioners to have been built on the ruins of a temple.

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said, "A great man has left us." "Pope Francis has returned to the Father's home. It is deeply sad news, because a great man has left us," Meloni said in a ...

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At the Herat Security Dialogue in Madrid, The Independent also met Nigara Mirdad, deputy head of mission at the now shut-down embassy of Afghanistan in Poland. Mirdad was in hospital in September ...