MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Pope Francis arrived in Mosul on Sunday to pray in the northern Iraqi city, once a stronghold of the Islamic State, where Christians now number fewer than a few dozen families.
The 84-year-old pontiff flew by helicopter from nearby Erbil on the third day of his historic tour of Iraq.
(Reporting by Eleanor Biles, Philip Pullela; Written by John Davison in Baghdad)
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