Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Sistani received on Saturday Pope Francis in the holy city of Najaf, the office of the senior Iraqi cleric announced. Religious authorities have a role in protecting Iraq’s Christians and that the Shia leader “affirmed his concern that Christian citizens should live like all Iraqis in ...
Iraqi protesters converged in the capital Baghdad to condemn Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat newspaper over an offensive cartoon depicting Iraq’s most prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani. The demonstrators staged the protest outside the gates of the heavily-fortified Green Zone, which is home to several embassies and government ...
