Iraqi Shiite men take part in a religious procession during the month of Muharram leading up to the mourning day of Ashura, in the central city of Karbala, August 14, 2021. (Photo: Mohammed Sawaf/AFP)
Saudi Muslims worshippers observe a safe distance as they perform noon prayer at Al-Rajhi mosque in the capital Riyadh, May 31, 2021. (Photo: Fayez Nureldine/AFP)
Peshtiwan Sadiq (center), the Kurdistan Region's Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs, speaks to reporters in Erbil, May 11, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) receives Mitja Leskovar, the Vatican Ambassador to Iraq, in Erbil, April 28, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Yezidis (Ezidis) celebrate their traditional New Year, known as "Red Wednesday" in their main temple of Lalish in the Kurdistan Region’s province of Duhok. (Photo: Archive)
Goran Osman Aziz, a health worker in Erbil, became the first person to receive the Sinopharm vaccine in the Kurdistan Region, March, 4, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Pope Francis (right) tours ruins of the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (al-Tahira-l-Kubra), in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, March 7, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)
Christians from across the region, including the diaspora from around the world, joined the celebrations in Duhok, Kurdistan Region, April 1, 2019. (Photo: Levi Clancy)
