Pope Francis holds a figurine of baby Jesus during the Christmas Eve mass at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, Dec. 24, 2023. (Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with Kaka'i religious figure Said Raheem Said Azim, Dec. 13, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
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)
Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, Sept. 22, 2023. (Photo: Leonardo Munoz/AFP
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg (left) shaking hands with Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako in Erbil, Sept. 13, 2023. (Photo: Alexander Schallenberg/X)
Shiite Muslim pilgrims gather in the shrine city of Karbala on the eve of Arbaeen religious festival commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson, Imam Hussein, Sept. 5, 2023. (Photo; Hussein Faleh/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)
