The scoop:  In an interview with Amwaj.media, Ryan Al-Kildani, the Secretary-General of the Iraqi Christian Babylon Movement, expressed “shock” at efforts by “some countries which are adversarial to Iraq” to allegedly thwart the Pope’s visit, thanking the Pontiff for “insisting on coming.”

Chaldean also welcomed Pope Francis’s meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani in the holy city of Najaf...