Palestinian protesters stand with copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, during a demonstration outside the Swedish consulate headquarters in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, July 3, 2023. (Photo: Hazem Bader/AFP)
Muslim pilgrims gather around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca early, June 28, 2023. (Photo: Abdel Ghani Bashir/AFP)
A cleric holds a Quran outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad for a second day of protests against a Koran burning, June 30, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al Rubaye/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with the newly-appointed Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East, Mar Georges III Younan, June 24, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Muslim pilgrims perform prayers at the Grand Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Mecca ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage, June 19, 2023. (Photo: Abdel Ghani Bashir/AFP)
Muslim pilgrims perform prayers at the Grand Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Mecca ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage, June 19, 2023. (Photo: Abdel Ghani Bashir/AFP)
Kurdistan Region pilgrims gathered in Iraqi southern Karbala province before departing to Saudi Arabia, June 10, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan Region General Directorate of Hajj and Umrah)
Khaleed Albert, director of Christian affairs at the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs of the KRG, speaking to Kurdistan 24, May 16, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) and Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq and the world. (Photo: Designed by Kurdistan 24)
