Security threats, the Covid pandemic, war-ravaged infrastructure: Iraqis are facing major challenges as they plan to host Pope Francis later this week. Workers are paving roads while nuns climb onto church roofs to retouch the paint on wooden crosses as the country prepares for its first ever Papal visit.

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