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)
Pope Francis (R), looks on at a square near the ruins of the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (al-Tahira-l-Kubra), in the old city of Iraq's northern Mosul, March 7, 2021. (Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP
Pope Francis greets Iraqis dressed in traditional outfits upon his arrival at Erbil airport, March 7, 2021, in the capital of the Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)
Pope Francis speaks with Iraqi religious figures during an interfaith service in the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar province, March 6, 2021. (Photo: Vatican Media)
