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

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.

'Silence the arms!' Pope urges end to violence on historic Iraq trip

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.