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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 …

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