Momika came from the Al-Hamdaniya district of Qaraqosh, a town in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh. [1] He was an ethnic Assyrian and raised as a Syriac Catholic. [2] [3]In 2017, Momika fled to Germany with a Schengen visa, where he announced his atheism and apostasy from Christianity. [3] In April 2018, Momika applied for a refugee visa to Sweden, and he was since then, registered as an …

