Posts Tagged: Najaf
How a 92-Year-Old Cleric Silently Halted Iraq’s Slide Back into War
When a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week, there was only one man who...
Pope Francis Meets Iraq’s Top Shi’ite Cleric, Visits Birthplace of Prophet Abraham
Pope Francis entered a narrow alleyway in Iraq's holy city of Najaf to hold a historic meeting with the county's top Shi'ite cleric and visited...
