Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq and the World, Nov. 13, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
A view of a Syriac language Bible on display at the Syriac Museum in Iraq's predominantly Christian town of Qaraqosh (Baghdeda) in Nineveh province, May 10, 2023. (Photo: Waleed al-Khaleed/AFP)
Assyrian intellectuals and religious leaders standing for a moment of silence in the Kurdistan Region's Ankawa district to commemorate the 89th anniversary of the Simele massacre, August 7, 2022. (Photo: Shayma Bayiz/Kurdistan 24)
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)
Iraqi Orthodox Christians celebrating Easter Saturday light candles, at the church of the ancient Mar Matta monastery of Saint Matthew in the village of Bashiqa, April 23, 2022. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
