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Majority of Christians have either fled to Iraqi Kurdistan or abroad. A population project by the Shlama Foundation has estimated that there are about 150,000 Christian Assyrians remaining in Iraq as of July 2020. [43] This is down from about 1,500,000 in the year 2003. [44] In 2003, Iraqi Christians were primary target of extremist Sunni ...
There has not been a census in Iraq since 2010, and there is no exact number of Christians in the country. Local leaders suggest that there were 150,000 Christians in 2022; [2] however, other estimates suggested that there were 295,000 Catholics. [1] All figures suggest that Catholics make up less than 1% of the country's population.
In 2002, the Christian population in Iraq numbered 1.2–2.1 million. There is also a significant population of Armenian Christians in Iraq who had fled Turkey during the Armenian genocide. Since the 2003 Iraq War began, there has been no official census, but in 2022, local leaders suggest that there were 150,000 Christians in 2022; [15 ...
Pope Francis arrived in Iraq on Friday to urge the country’s dwindling number of Christians to stay put and help rebuild the country after years of war and persecution, brushing aside the ...
The bell of a new church built near Iraq's ancient city of Ur chimed for the first time last week as part of a push to lure back pilgrims to a country that is home to one of the world's oldest ...
By one estimate, there was about 1.5 million largely Assyrian Christians in Iraq by 2003, or 7% of the population, but with the fall of Saddam Hussein Christians began to leave Iraq in large numbers, and the population shrank to less than 500,000 today. [81]
The Christian community in Iraq is relatively small, and further dwindled due to the Iraq War to just an estimated 150,000 as of 2024. [42] The majority of Christians in Iraq are ethnic Assyrians , who belong traditionally to the Syriac Orthodox Church , Chaldean Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East , and are dispersed across the ...
There were four Reformed-Presbyterian congregations in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Basra and Mosul, served by Egyptian pastors. In 1969 all missionaries were expelled from Iraq and their schools were closed. The exact number of churches and adherents is unknown. [1] In 2001 the Evangelical Church of Iraq had five congregations and opened a Christian ...