Najaf takes in Christians displaced by Islamic State - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Ali Mamouri

Ali Mamouri

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Shiite Muslim Ahmad Safi, the representative of Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, gives a sermon at the Imam Hussein mosque during the Friday prayer on June 20, 2014 in the Shrine city of Karbala in central Iraq. Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for the country's next government to be "effective" and avoid past mistakes, in an implicit criticism of the embattled incumbent premier. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED SAWAF (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED — Ahmad Safi, the representative of Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, gives a sermon at the Imam Hussein mosque in Karbala, June 20, 2014. — MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP/Getty Images

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