IRAQ-RELIGION-SHIITE

An Iraqi soldier and civilians stir pots of food on December 28, 2012, in the Karrada neighbourhood of Baghdad. The food is to be distributed to Iraqi Shiite Muslim pilgrims walking along the main highway linking the Iraqi capital to the central shrine city of Karbala where they will mark, later this week, the Arbaeen religious festival which is the 40th day after Ashura, commemorating the killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson, Imam Hussein in the seventh century. AFP PHOTO / SABAH ARAR (Photo credit should read SABAH ARAR/AFP via Getty Images)