MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Pope Francis arrived in Mosul on Sunday to pray in the decimated northern Iraqi city that was once a stronghold for Islamic State and where Christians now number little more 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 Pullella; writing by John Davison in Baghdad)
