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A mil­i­tant group impli­cat­ed in a recent rock­et attack on U.S. forces in Iraq has declared a cease­fire dur­ing Pope Francis’s vis­it, a grudg­ing sus­pen­sion of hos­til­i­ties that hints at the polit­i­cal impor­tance of the papal tour.
“We stop all forms mil­i­tary action dur­ing the Pope’s vis­it,” Saraya Awliya al Dam, Ara­bic for the Guardians of Blood, announced pri­or to the pontiff’s arrival.
The pledge offers a mea­sure of reas­sur­ance as the …