and he often spoke about abraham lincoln in the years ahead. he gave dozens of talks about lincoln which make very interesting reading to this day. but you sometimes would take this cane up and you're waving around and say this cane used to belong to abraham lincoln. and now it belongs to me. and he saw his vocation in a way to keep alive the memory of the progressive lincoln. the lincoln who of the emancipator the lincoln who was slowly but surely coming to a vision of a multi racial future for this country. and frederick douglass said i know if he had lived he would have finished that journey with us. he was at heart a progressive figure an antislavery figure. so douglas kept alive this memory of lincoln which in some ways that was a very different memory than the memory propounded by even robert lincoln who often said my father was a very conservative man and emphasized the conservatism of the lincoln legacy. so this represents one example of the kind of ways lincoln's memory was contested after his death. and of course the memory was very d

>>> in 1849 abraham lincoln returns to springfield with little to show.ak for his political career. he comes home with no imminent political prospect and with a legal career that had founder because he had not paid attention to. not only he did not have political aspect, he did not have many income prospects. he's a lucky man that his wife/father is wealthy. >> mary was pretty disappointed. she wanted to be a president's wife. it was a tremendous strain on their marriage. if there is a midlife crisis and professional life, this was the moment their their marriage was tested. holding a log on the fireplace and throwing things. she had quite a temper and lincoln just walked out of the situation and she got angrier. >> and as the lincolns wrestled with disappointment, they are dealt with another devastating blow. in december of 1849, their three-year-old son, eddie cont cont cont contracts tuberculosis. >> it was 52 long days watching every single moment of his fading. and then, eddie, their beloved younger son died in february of 1850. >> the lincolns go in

people are waiting for a great triumphal speech from abraham lincoln.wo days after appomattox, he does something a little bit more complex. he gives a speech that turns to a conversation about the challenge of reconstruction. he said, we need to have a non-ideological approach to reconstruction. and he goes further in one element than he's ever gone before. he says that he believes that black people should be allowed to vote, at least those who have served in the armed forces and those who are very intelligent, by which we assume he meant literate. >> what a shocking idea that was. in a society that held the deepest racist ideologies about the incompetencesy of blacks. >> from a guy who was not an abolitionist, was not really purely anti-slavery in terms of doing very much about it, and he ends up saying that maybe blacks could vote. that is extraordinary. >> there was one person in the audience who did recognize how revolutionary that notion was, and that was a charismatic young actor named john wilkes booth. >> booth says, that means n-word citizenshi

but abraham lincoln conceded nothing to john brown. and his conviction that slavery was wrong, lincoln would handed bring in other aspects as well as bad policy. it's bad for white people as well as black people. it's bad for -- its friends the future of democracy. it is wrong. so, the question is though, what do you do about it? and so i wanted to look at two people who agreed that this thing was wrong. that took diametrically opposite about what to do about it. and so, i look at john brown, i look at abraham lincoln, primarily through the lens of their attitudes towards slavery and more importantly, their actions towards slavery. and they were both born in the first decade of the 19th century, and this is important for his story because american attitudes towards slavery were changing during this time. i think it's fair to say that at the time of the founding of this republic and 1776, nearly everybody who thought about the question at all thought that slavery was at best, a necessary evil. almost nobody at that time taught slavery w

abraham lincoln was sent a letter saying i'm going to put a spider in your dumpling, you goddamn son of a bitch, and other expressions that i didn't know existed in the 19th century. >> people had sent nooses. >> robert lincoln, the teenager, opened this threatening envelope and was unnerved by it. the situation required his father to calm him down. folks in the south using the dynamics of polarization and violence to move people into supporting succession. violence creates that sense of tribalism that is what the entire fight is about. >> and it's clear that it could descend into war . >> when abraham lincoln is elected in 1860, there are nearly four million enslaved people in the united states. in some counties in the south, over 70% of the population is enslaved. the booming southern economy relies on their forced labor. >> enslaved people are engaged primarily in cotton production, tobacco production, mixed farming. you're up before dawn. you go out into the fields. you can expect to work until dark. and if it's harvest time, you're going to work 20 hours a day. but the issue is

i look at abraham lincoln. primarily through the lens of their attitudes towards slavery and more importantly their actions towards slavery. and they were both born in the first decade of the 19th century and this is important for this story because american attitudes towards slavery. we're changing during this time. i think it's fair to say that at the time of the founding of this republic. in 1776 nearly everybody who thought about the question at all thought that slavery was at best a necessary evil. almost nobody at that time fought slavery was a good thing other things being equal. they thought it fell in the category of necessary evils like like war i mean almost nobody thinks that war is a good thing. but on their hand, they aren't very many people who say the countries like the united states should forceware war under any circumstances. so it falls in the category of we don't like it but sometimes in this world you get wrapped up in this stuff and attitudes towards slavery in the 1770s 80s 90s fell larg

but what about statues of abraham lincoln? john avlon with a reality check. >> it took our country 150 years to start taking down confederate statues. some 150 of them, since 2015. and it's part of our belated reckoning with racial justice. looking at our history with more perspective and realizing that maybe statues to people who took up arms against the united states to defend slavery don't need to be honored in the 21st century public spaces. they should be in museums. context matters a lot, as well. like learning that many of those statues were built long after the civil war. some in reaction to desegregation. these civic debates are much bigger than the latest cancel culture panic on the right. but those claims gained a foothold in people's minds when calls to take down statues start blurring the distinction between confederates and abraham lincoln. d.c. delegate eleanor holmes norton recently reintroduced her bills to remove several statues in the nation's capitol, including the statue of abraham lincoln known as the ema

he barely croaking his way through and abraham lincoln gets the final word. perpetuation of slavery was a compromise and necessary of the union but the founders did not intend for the founders to expand. >> lincoln reminds the crowd that only 82 years before that the founding fathers liberated the united states from the tyranny of kings. >> whether it comes from a king who strives the people of their own nation and live by the fruit of their labor or one race of men as an apology of enslaving for another race. >> he's saying that slave owners are like tyrants and slave owners are fundamentally un-american. nothing about that antislavery approach is predicated on concern with black people. it is fundamentally about lincoln's ideals for the nation and i think that's one of the major appeals to a lot of white northerns. >> lincoln's stance allowed northern republicans to stand proudly against slavery while remaining firmly committed to white supremacy. his rhetoric had the country abuzz abuzzed with news from illinois. >> illinois was a deeply racist state. >> t

is known as prophet abraham who sacrifice is celebrated during the islamic holiday of. how the beat could know and a lot of fathers used to take us to every homes house every 3 to 4 weeks since our childhood we were raised to love abraham's house his words his dialogue shaken he has traveled to the vatican himself and hopes the pope's visit will result in formal collaboration. with and i hope this 1st visit will be followed by other visits the institutes will be established here for mutual understanding an interchange where students from the vatican come to iraq to study for one or 2 years and our students can go to christian institutes the people who live around who would have more practical demands like this new road paved just ahead of the pope's arrival and. we hope that after the public calms there will be better services there will be more developments i'm jobs such expectations risked being left unfulfilled during a profound financial and health crisis still the pope's visit will at least for a day cast the limelight on a side that has had few visitors in decades

abraham. >> madam chair, senator patty murray, ranking member senator richard burr, senators, i would like to thank the committee for this opportunity to discuss this paramount issue, the covid-19 pandemic. my name is jerry abraham and i'm a family and community medicine physician, a global epidemiologist and a medical quality specialist, practicing in south los angeles. i provide care to patients at kedren health, a federally qualified health center serving low-income patients, diverse patient populations of south los angeles. first, on behalf of kedren and our president dr. john griffith, we extend the warmest thanksgiving and gratitude for each of you to share our experience and perspective on the issue of health care service and public health delivery to underserved populations during this time of this covid-19 pandemic. before i begin, we at kedren want to acknowledge the local leaders who make it possible for our measured success, governor gavin newsom and the state of california departm

the future of awesome. >>> his trip to d.c., abraham lincoln, breaks his silence.e stops at cities along the route to defend democracy. >> most americans who saw li lincoln saw him during that 13-day train trip. >> he's seen a growing industrial north. >> just in the last decade, these places gone through a revolution. economically, politically and socially. it is the heart of the country that made him president. >> when he won't see is the south on this trip. the closest he comes to speaking to the south is giving his speech at the banks of the ohio river is saying if they can hear me over there. they can't hear his words of reconciliations. because when he makes his inaugural journey, there is another journey taken place. jefferson davis is heading to montgomery, alabama. that's a serious sign this is going to be a conflict. >> jefferson davis is chosen to lead the confederacy. >> on february 22nd, 1861, when lincoln was in philadelphia en route to his ninauguration, he spoke outside of independence hall. he said every idea he ever had politically came from the d

in a moment of weakness she hatched a plan providing abraham with the child., if she can somehow make god's promise be fulfilled, sarah believes that god has filled her so she needs to be the one to step into the chair and really take control and in the sense fix it. she wrote adopted child and pretty standard custom and then the child would be raised as theirs. that's not what god has in mind. that is sarah's plan abraham went along with it but then their relationship began to change. jealousy took over. they don't have any say in what happens in her own life, not a woman of choices like those who live in the western world today. they went to the wilderness hoping to find a solution. scared and alone, he is met by the angel of the lord. the first time he tries to away they say no, go back. >> i can't imagine how hard that must be knowing that she would only be mistreated. they new there would be a struggle. she talks about that, she felt seen, the god of the universe. >> they had a son. years later abraham was visited by god and there was a promise that would

my question is for doctor abraham. like you, i'm a physician and volunteered in federally qualified health clinics. we have 21 in kansas, very proud of them and i'm used to dealing with finite resources and you are, to back. i just want to talk for a second i wrote an op-ed for the journal published last night and just kind of talk about how we save the most lives. how do we save the most lives. are you familiar with the news. studies coming out on the effectiveness of one shot of the vaccines have you been following those stories? i think what we are seeing is one shot of the vaccine 75 to 90% after one shot and the other big news is 12 weeks you can still get the second shot and be just as effective. if you have a finite set of numbers of shots and you're trying to get to the herd immunity as quickly as possible, after you get the high risk people let's say seniors and everybody with diabetes and heart disease, you know your clinic better than i do. if we would give you the flexibility of gettingr everyboy one shot n

abraham. after they get their testimony sanders will each have five minutes for a round of questions. before we begin again want to walk through the covid-19 safety protocols in place. we will follow the advice of the attending physician in the sergeant at arms and conducting this hearing. committee members are seated at least six feet apart. and some senators are participating by video conference. and while we were unable to have the hearing open to the public are media for in-person attendance live video is available on our committee website at help that city .gov. if you are in need of accommodations including closed captioning you can reach out to the committee or the office of congressional office services. we are grateful to everyone including our committee clerks who have worked so hard to set up a hearing like this and help everyone stays safe and healthy during this pandemic. life for families across the country has changed a lot over the past year. and while we are familiar with the

we've lost. >> at the end of the day, it has to be said that abraham lincoln was not nearly as savvy a military thinker as he was a political one. >> so what does he do?not nearl thinker as he was a political one. >> so what does he do? he sends to the library of congress for books, books about war strategy. he decides to teach himself the job of commander in chief, just as he taught himself shakespeare, just as he taught himself the law. he's the biggest and most successful autodidact in american history. >> but wars are not won from behind a desk. lincoln must find a seasoned general to ensure a union victory. >> after the disaster at bull run, general mcdowell is politely relieved. another general, george mcclellan is called in from the west to take charge, and new plans are going to be made. george briton mcclellan who seemed to be the very apex of a professional soldier. >> he had been a high-ranking member of his class at west point. he had been a successful officer. he seemed to be a boy genius. and mcclellan takes the army that had been so dispirited by the defeat of bull run

is known as prophet abraham who sacrifice is celebrated during the islamic holiday of. how they'll be. a father's used to take us to every homes house every 3 to 4 weeks since our childhood we were raised to love abraham's house his words his dialogue. shaken he has traveled to the vatican himself and hopes the pope's visit will result in formal collaboration. with and i hope this 1st visit will be followed by other visits from the institutes will be established here for mutual understanding an interchange where students from the vatican come to iraq to study for one or 2 years and our students can go to christian institutes the people who live around who would have more practical demands like this new road paved just ahead of the pope's arrival and. we hope that after the public calms there will be better services there will be more development arm jobs such expectations risked being left unfulfilled during a profound financial and health crisis still the pope's visit will at least for a day cast the limelight on a side that has had few visitors in decades of war and i

president abraham lincoln is tasked with leading the country through the most perilous time it's ever known. and the choices he makes will determine the future of democracy and the fate of our nation. >>> previously on "lincoln: divided we stand" -- >> on the 12th of april 1861, confederate artillery opens fire on ft. sumter. >> as soon as sumter is fired upon, virginia secedes, and the game's up. >> the civil war as we know it begins. >> lincoln immediately called for 75,000 volunteers. >> there was a huge amount of excitement actually at that point on both sides because people have anticipated this for so long. some people were itching for a fight. >> they think war is a glorious thing and let's go and do it. >> but in the spring lincoln's overeager young friend from springfield, elmer ellsworth, a short but very dashing commander of a drill team, would go with the lincoln boys to the roof of the white house and look out with a telescope. and over the river they saw a confederate flag flying from the top of a hotel. and ellsworth, for one, was offended. >> ellsworth led a band acros

there was evidence that there might have been a past issued by abraham lincoln. to a mrs. tubman could that have been harriet tubman, but my investigation and looking into it and thank you daniel weinberg for calling it. this is that there was a tubman slaveholder in georgia, and she had actually sent a group of her liberated slaves two liberia and family became very prominent in politics in liberia and indeed william was president from right until his death and so i would go around and people would ask me about how harriet's children went to africa to become president. so we see that the tubman name has you know has prominence in many different ways that particular woman was emily tubman, but nevertheless we know that there was a tubman earlier in maryland tubman was a name that harriet took i said the name her mother sister. who was disappeared who was taken away to the south but there are interesting things. so watch the headlines and be there again soon. well, we are out of time. i want to thank you both and also manisha for such a wonderful conversation. i want to rem

and i was an abraham as a core someone who is respected and as as a prophet for many of the of the abrahamic religions so in so far as that is the case iraqis themselves do want i mean it's good to have a reminder that it's not our identity politics but the question to me is whether the political leaders will listen because it's really the politically kemah freights ran out 8 of well i'm afraid we'll have to cut you off the pope has started speaking let's listen in. where the history changed. and that trip. was. and is now i know he came to heaven. and. when they and his descendants. are now. christians moms and swear together. it's and on. and. had to move forward like. but. some of them were don't want you now let's look at them. i don't really miss you missed it and it's not on the same star city. now but in the summer it was somewhat of a gentle and. where. i miss some of the north looks over us some. with all that and i'm sure. we must do. what we have to share with. other you as a scrub and us. then. we descendants of abraham but so what and i'm not a granny and. this. is where we all

abraham supposed birthplace of that he said to then hold mass within it back in baghdad the following that he is then going to come up to be aware of where i'm at carney at the moment and then go into mosul and this is some very stark sights there and then also head to the town of kalak auch where you groups that was it church that was significantly attacked by isis when when they when they when they control the area and then finally culminates its trip being in a holding a marketing and opening and putting the event at this at the football stadium here now this is obviously a historic and a very big fair step but what kind of pie realistically a change as far as interfaith dialogue goes in the country. i mean he's not going to be able to disarm all the major groups and age militias and he's certainly not going to be able to stop some of the violence that some sites see that still operate in certain areas of this country and you know here and beyond the u.s. bases we see attack voices shia militias so he's not going to be able to and that i think the message that came out the meeting

his books include the ruling class, a radical and the republican, frederick douglass abraham lincoln and the tribe of anti-slavery politics and freedom national, distraction slavery in the united states. he won the lincoln prize for the finest quality work in english on abraham lincoln or the american civil ever killed in ma and phd from university of california berkeley and he's been on the faculty of the university of new york graduate center since 1997 and the holder of the graduate school of humanities chair since 1998. 1998. he will be joined in conversation by professor kennedy who is a michael klein professor at harvard law school where he teaches courses on contracts the criminal law and the regulation of race relations. he attended south saint albans school princeton university oxford university and yell law school. he served as a law clerk for judge right of the united states court of appeals and for justice thurgood marshall of the united states supreme court. he was awarded the robert f. kennedy book award for his book, crime and the longer some of his recent books includ

in the land of abraham. of restoration. in the land of abraham-— of restoration., ~ . dr yvette isaac. moving on to other news now. in myanmar, protests against the military coup are continuing, despite the increasingly brutal crackdown by police and the military. meanwhile, the un's special envoy on myanmar has urged the security council to restore democracy to the country. in a closed—door meeting in new york, members were told that anti—coup demonstrators were beginning to lose faith in the united nations. mark lobel reports. the crackdown continues on citizens calling out the coup. all chant. they remained defiant, despite the deadliest week here. appealing for international support, these signs are reference to the un's responsibility to protect principle, to prevent mass killings. now, one month after the un's top security body called for a return to democracy, and for the immediate release of detainees, including unsung ct, it has met again. including unsung ct, it has met aaain. ~ , , again. we requested this morning's _ again. we requested this morning's

well, we are going to have a panel discussion now on teaching abraham lincoln and the civil war. my name is jonathan white and i'm the vice chairman of the lincoln forum, and i'm so glad to have all of you here today. we're going to be bringing in a wonderful panel. we have william c davis caroline janney tamika nunley and craig simons, and they will be coming in right now as they turn on their cameras and unmute and the way i wanted to start this off is actually to have each of our li

, all revering abraham in equal measure.s will meet with the senior cleric in islam, seen as a moderating force and the chief cleric. reclusive. he does not leave his home. he does not meet visiting dignitaries, no matter where they are from, except for the pope. they will meet tomorrow. that is an important thing. pope francis will visit mosul, used to be a home to a community of 50,000 christians. now about 2,000 left. he will perform an outdoor mass in northern iraq. it has been targeted by multiple rocket attacks. he is there going to do an outdoor mass. saying i come as -- these two events in the news in the same day. they are not connected all that much. but they are a reminder, i think, to sort of stay ready and to be aware of the fact that things that seem impossible can one day just happen. impossibly difficult things. sometimes they untangle. it is never easy or uncomplicated when they happen. these are not knots severed with a sword. the pope's visit to iraq is complicated, among others, covid worries. crowds are

abraham on that testimony today. he was unbelievable. so dr. abraham, thank you for that.let's get to your question, joy. it's so frustrating. states have made this so incredibly complicated for people. people are spending hours trying to navigate complex websites and it's unnecessary. we can make this simple and straightforward. i do think that we will have a point probably late march, early april when we will have plenty of vaccines, but we've got to make it ease per people and one of the ways you build inequity in this system is by making it complex and by making it hard and that's what a lot of states are doing and i think that's a huge problem. >> dr. abraham, per your testimony, can you talk a little bit about and it's important to notice, as well, what are people feeling like they can get back? here's what you can have back. is that message working when you're talking to people about getting vaccinated that these parts in your life can come back. >> i think it was very important that i went to congress in person and this was essential, work-related travel and gettin

a month ago that abraham lincoln wouldn't have been abraham lincoln without his wife. i can tell you that after eight years of research and writing, the same is true of the most famous union civil war generals and their wives. john charles fremont, george mcclellan, william tecumseh sherman and ulysses s. grant wouldn't have been who they were without jesse, nelly, ellie ewing and julia dent. i first twigged to this story ten years ago when i was in graduate show and learned that ellen sherman sought help for her husband from president lincoln in january of 1862. from earlier reading, i knew that jesse benton fremont ha lobbied the president on her husband's behalf a few months earlier. as a former congressional aide and lobbyist, i was intrigued by their lobbying efforts and by the very different results they achieved. i wanted to know more about how these wives influenced their husbands' careers. i was confident that they had because i was raised in a military family and learned very early the strength, courage, and resilience required of military spouses. i began wi

to, complicit in the assassination of abraham lincoln. three, the mistreatment of federal soldiers in prison by the confederate states army. in order to answer those charges, in federal court, he had to be in a place where homes lost residency occurred, and that would be in richmond, the white house and confederacy. here, he would stay for months, he will remain incarcerated and for tomorrow for almost two years. he would never be acquitted and he would retire and write his memoirs and live to the age of 80. with the understanding that jefferson davis was charged for three federal indictments, many folks in the united states, and of wealth, might have influence -- the best way to heal the nation. the try jefferson davis with the fear that he might be acquitted, and would cast a shadow over 3.2 million people going to war, and over 750,000 of them losing their lives. at the conclusion of the american civil war, the priority of not only our commerce and the president, but the citizens of united states was to reunite the country. make us onc

the patriarch of all abrahamic religions. in a meeting with leaders representing sudanese sheers christians disease and sabin's francis called himself a messenger of peace advocating harmony and faiths. believe is a strong element the. unifies us terrorism and extremism has nothing to do with religion terrorism exploits religion it is up to us to find solutions and is up to us to face and deal with those who betray religions the ancient city of the province where there have been frequent protests or violence but on saturday the message from politicians and religious leaders there was of tolerance and peaceful change many iraqis say they're ready for such a transition and hope it will also has brings corruption and bring more jobs some of the job it out of there now jeff. egypt's president up after our c.c. has wrapped up a diplomatic visit to sudan and met saddam's leaders including the head of state are brought home they discussed several major issues including the dispute with ethiopia of the ground next on stem earlier thi

verse from the bible and the pope really wants to underline the commonalities between the 3 abrahamic religions which are judaism christianity and islam he wants to really emphasize the similarities between the space rather than the differences hoping that that lead his visit can somehow reset relations that it can somehow be the beginning of a new start and that is of course why he's also going to order which is in southern iraq in the province of the car and there he will be holding and into fave dialogue with muslim leaders to try to again emphasize the commonalities because of course who is thought to be the birthplace of abraham the patriarch of the 3 monotheistic faiths it is there where he was supposed to have been born before he received the call as the bible goes from god to migrate to the promised land and of course he is somebody who is very important for christians jews and muslims alike for muslims he's known as prophet it but he is the one who is celebrated during the islamic holiday of to honor his sacrifice of he's also who is thought to have built the kaaba in mecca i

going to have a panel discussion now on teaching abraham lincoln and the civil war. my name is jonathan white and i'm the vice chairman of the lincoln forum, and i'm so glad to have all of you here today. we're well we can have a panel discussion now on teaching abraham lincoln and the civil war. my name is jonathan white, and i'm the vice chairman of the lincoln forum. and i'm so glad to have all of you here today. we're going to be bringing in a wonderful panel, have william see davis, caroline janney, tamika nunley and craig symonds. they will be coming in right now as they turn on their cameras and unmute. and the way i wanted to start this off is actually to have each of our panelists introduce themselves to you, rather than have me read along introduction for each person. and i want to have them talk about how they became interested in the american civil war, where they teach, what sort of classes they teach and how they think about teaching a lincoln and the civil war. we have jack davies coming in here and will have jackal first and then will have kerry go se

two, complicit in the assassination of abraham likened. three, the mistreatment of federal soldiers in prison by the confederate states army. in order to answer to those charges in federal court, he had to be in the place where his last residency occurred, which would be richmond, the white house of the confederacy. it was here he would stay incarcerated for almost two years. he would never see his day in court. he would never be acquitted. he would retire, write his memoirs and live to the age of 80. with the understanding that jefferson davis was charged with three federal indictments, many folks in the united states, men of wealth and influence, decided that was not going to be the best way to heal the nation. to try jefferson davis and the fear that he might be acquitted would cast a shadow on 3.2 million people going to war and over 750,000 losing their lives. at the conclusion, the priority of our congress and the president was to reunite the country. once again a strong union. many confederate officers would not be charged with trea

so what can we learn from abraham lincoln? and indeed from james buchanan if there is anything to learn about transitions. >> i should begin by saying that i didn't anticipate 2016 or 2020 when i started this book. it's 2011. as you mentioned, i was deeply involved in the new york times which you were participating, in many others on the call participated in as readers, we were trying to reach new audiences through new tools, tell good history online. so 2016 was five years away and barack obama was actually still in his first term. but even then, there was a feeling that there were two very different americas. that feeling has deepened a lot from 20, 11 2012. there were people who did not like each other. that is a future of all of american history but it was crystallizing into non acceptance into the other sides right to govern. i believe the birtherism was have a meeting in 2011, it wasn't something i was paying that much attention to biden retrospect it was important. a significant number of americans denying the right of

illinois being where abraham lincoln had a political career, he was captivated by the story of abraham lincoln and sent out to write a children's book, and later wrote a six-volume biography of abraham lincoln which won a pulitzer prize in 1940. we are 35 miles southeast of asheville. the family moved here in 1945, mr. and misses sandberg, their three children and their two grandchildren, john carl and paula. the home was adequate for a family of that size. the home is 6000 square feet the family was able to use recycled wood to line the house with bookshelves to house carl sandberg's collection of 60,000 books. he was hesitant to leave his home in michigan. the family built the home, mr. sandberg designed it, it perfectly fit his work schedule. there was a room for him upstairs to work quietly from the rest of the house and not be disturbed by his wife and children in the dairy farm operation. auntie wanted to make sure his books and everything arrived just as he had it in michigan. he was in the middle of a big project and wanted to make sure all his materials arrived and that he cou

pope francis has now arrived in the ancient city of ur where the prophet abraham — central to islam,daism — is believed to have been born. our correspondent mark lowen reports. if the first day of pope francis�* visit to iraq was about the politics and about meeting the country's dwindling christian community, today was about the outreach towards other faiths, most notably a meeting this morning with the country's top shia cleric, grand ayatollah ali al—sistani, bringing together the leader of the world's catholics with perhaps the most powerful and influential figure in shia islam. it's thought that they discussed interfaith dialogue and the violence that iraqi christians have long suffered. then the pope came on here to ur, the ancient birthplace of the prophet abraham, in which he met again with members of other religions and he spoke of how hostility and extremism and violence were, in his words, "the betrayal of religion". he spoke in favour of peace, unity and against hatred. so the meeting this morning, perhaps the most symbolic moment of this trip, then the dialogue here in u

pope francis has now arrived in the ancient city of ur where the prophet abraham — central to islam,ism — is believed to have been born. from ur, he has now moved to baghdad where he is currently giving mass, as we can see here at the chaldean cathedral of saintjoseph in baghdad. this is part of the eastern tradition in christianity, but it is recognised by the church in rome. the relatively small number of christians now left in the city have obviously appeared across the country in their droves to watch the pope's visit in the country. this is the second day of a four visit, it is longer than most political figures go for. we will listen in to mass. they sing. mass continues this afternoon, perhaps the biggest mass will take place tomorrow, which is the one where he is in the north of the country once again and obviously some date being the most important day of the week for christians. mass thatis day of the week for christians. mass that is expected to be attended by thousands of people, which has raised concerns about it being a super spreader event, with there having been a ser