we'll also have fun with music stars idena menzel and chaka khan that's monday morning, only on "todays first trip to that country which, of course, recently has been rocked by new violence and scarred by civil war nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in baghdad this morning for the arrival. good morning >> reporter: good morning, savannah there were many reasons to call this off, but i'm told the pope personally wanted this trip to go forward he landed here in baghdad not long ago right now, he is inside the presidential palace. this is the protocol part of his trip, but soon, he will be getting the actual pilgrimage itself it is being described by the vatican as a pilgrimage of peace. he'll be visiting a church attacked by an al qaeda affiliate a decade ago, and dozens of christians were massacred inside one of the main objectives of this visit is to show solidarity with the christian community here that's suffered so much over the last several years of civil war. many christians have left this country, have left this region he's trying to preserve this community, one o