religious affairs alice martin and why is the pope visiting iraq now of all times. well i mean i think that most of the work attention has been captured by you know the media see if the if the current are covered crisis in some of the major issues that the vatican press in keeping tabs on and falling through the fallen through the wayside one of the reasons why the pope travels is very often to highlight or to refocus attention on the ticklish tension by and large. but i think that this is the recent i mean you know the the numbers of the christian community in iraq have you know reduced in really radical ways i mean it was a 1.41.5000000 strong community among the different denominations and we are now we're talking about probably 250000 or so in those numbers are doing doing so you know in a way i mean the sites of the migration of one of the oldest christian communities in the world obviously make states very important for the pope but francis also wants to a celebrate a mass in arbil with thousands of believers is that a clever move at the moment. it's very diff