3 Min Read QARAQOSH, Iraq (Reuters) - Waving olive branches, flags and balloons and dressed in colourful traditional robes, hundreds of residents lined the streets of the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh on Sunday waiting for the arrival of Pope Francis. Slideshow ( 5 images ) Francis will visit the town’s restored Grand Immaculate Church - Iraq’s largest - as part of a four-day tour of the country that aims to boost the morale of the country’s small Christian communities. The Christian enclave was overrun by Islamic State fighters in 2014, but since the militant were driven out in 2017 families have slowly returned and rebuilt homes that were left in ruins by the militants and the fighting that ousted them.