NAJAF, Iraq — On the second day of his visit to Iraq, Pope Francis, the highest authority in the Catholic church and the sovereign of the Vatican City State, flew to Najaf, to hold a historic meeting with the country's top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
Starting in the early morning of March 6, children lined up on Rasul Street next to Najaf’s Imam Ali Shrine, waving Iraqi and Vatican flags while patiently waiting for the pontiff’s motorcade to arrive.
