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BAGHDAD: Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, one of the top Shia clerics, told Pope Francis in an important meeting in Iraq on Saturday that the country’s Christians should live in “peace”. The meeting, on the second day of the first-ever papal visit to Iraq, marked an important moment in modern religious history. Pope Francis later addressed the rich spectrum of Iraq’s …

Muslim and Christian residents of Mosul told Pope Francis of their lives under the brutal rule of Islamic State (IS) on Sunday as the pontiff blessed their vow to rise up from ashes, telling them that “fraternity is more durable than fratricide.” Francis, on a historic trip to Iraq, flew into Mosul by helicopter to encourage the binding of sectarian wounds …