Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Sistani received on Saturday Pope Francis in the holy city of Najaf, the office of the senior Iraqi cleric announced. Religious authorities have a role in protecting Iraq’s Christians and that the Shia leader “affirmed his concern that Christian citizens should live like all Iraqis in ...
Pope Francis has arrived in Iraq for the first ever papal visit there, and his first international trip since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Covid and security fears have made this his riskiest visit yet, but the 84-year-old insisted he was “duty bound”. He will try to reassure the ...
