In a first, Pope Francis arrives in Iraq's top Shi'ite Muslim cleric's house

Pope Francis is pictured as he arrives to meet with Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in Najaf, Iraq. Credit: Reuters Photo

Pope Francis arrived at the home of Iraq's top Shi'ite Muslim cleric in southern Iraq on Saturday for the first-ever such meeting between the leaders of Roman Catholicism and Shi’ite Islam.

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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani was to greet Francis at his humble home in Najaf, the seat of the Iraqi Shi'ite clergy, on the second day of the pontiff's historic tour of Iraq.

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