Mar Awa III (left), newly inaugurated Catholicos Patriarch the Assyrian Church of the East, shakes hands with Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, Sept. 13, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency Media Office)
Shia Muslim men take part in a ritual ahead of Arbaeen, which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period for the seventh-century killing of Imam Hussein, Oct. 5, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)
French President Emmanuel Macron tours the Al-Nuri Mosque in Iraq's second city of Mosul, in the northern Nineveh province, August 29, 2021. (Photo: Ludovic Marin/AFP)
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)
