Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, left, appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican shortly after his election as the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) receives Mitja Leskovar, the Vatican Ambassador to Iraq, in Erbil, April 28, 2021. (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)
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