At a brief prayer service with Chaldean Catholics in Georgia, Pope Francis has pleaded with God to grant peace to persecuted Christians and the victims of war, especially in Syria and Iraq.
With 300 people squeezed into the small Chaldean Church of St Simon the Tanner, Pope Francis joined representatives of the Chaldean community who have lived in Georgia for generations, but also most of the Chaldean Church's bishops, who came from Iraq, Syria and throughout the Middle East to pray with the Pope.
