What made the Pope laugh when shaking hands with Qubad Talabani?

Mar 08 2021

ARK News… Pope Francis appeared in one of the pictures taken upon his arrival in Erbil, laughing as he shook hands with the deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region, Qubad Talabani, which aroused the curiosity of the observers.

Talabani says about this photo on Twitter: “The photographer who took this photo asked me what I said to make, His Holiness, Pope Francis' laugh? I said that I welcomed him in Italian ».

"Either His Holiness the Pope was happy to see me, or he must have found my accent funny," he joked.

Source: BasNews (translated from Arabic)

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What made the Pope laugh when shaking hands with Qubad Talabani?

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