Shiite Muslim women cry as they watch worshippers re-enacting the Battle of Karbala as they mark the peak of Ashura, August 9, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Organizers of the 2017 Ibn Rushd Award for Freedom of Thought are announcing the winner of the prize in Germany (Photo: Screengrab/Amman-Palestine.org)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani hosting a discussion with journalists and members of media organizations in Erbil, June 20, 2022 (Photo: Islam Hero/Kurdistan 24)
The delegation of the Kurdistan Regional Government represented by the Ministers of Endowments and Religious Affairs, Transport and Communications. (Photo: KRG)
KRG Minister of Endowment and Religious Affairs Pishtwan Sadiq attending the inauguration ceremony for a new church in Erbil's Ankawa district with cardinal Louis Sako, June 26, 2022 (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda is pictured at Myeondong Cathedral in Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 12, 2016 (Photo: Aid to the Church in Need/Chaldean Archdiocese of Erbil)
Kurdistan Region Minister of Endowment and Religious Affairs Pishtwan Sadiq announcing the first day of al-Fitr Eid, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, April 30, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Christian worshippers attend mass at the Mar Tuma Syriac Catholic Church in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on April 30, 2022, for the first time since its restoration after it was ransacked by Islamic State group jihadists (Photo: Zaid AL-OB
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