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[29] 10,000 mainly Assyrian Iraqi Christians live in the United Kingdom, led by Archbishop Athanasios Dawood, who has called on the government to accept more refugees. [35] Apart from emigration, the Iraqi Christian share of the population is also declining due to lower rates of birth [citation needed] and higher death rates than its Muslim ...
Iraqi Christian clergy (2 C, 2 P) E. Eastern Orthodox Christians from Iraq (2 P) O. Iraqi Oriental Orthodox Christians (4 P) S. Mesopotamian saints (18 P)
According to a 1950 CIA report on Iraq, Chaldean Catholic Assyrians numbered 98,000 and were the largest Christian minority. [5] In the late 2010s, it had a membership of 616,639, with a large population in diaspora and its home country of Iraq. [4] [6]
The majority of Iraqi Christians are Chaldean Catholic Assyrians, whilst non-Syriac Christians are mostly Iraqi Arabs and Armenians. Iraqi-Assyrians largely belong to the Syriac Orthodox Church , the Assyrian Church of the East , Chaldean Catholic Church , Ancient Church of the East , and the Syriac Catholic Church .
Christian religious leaders in northern Iraq called for an international investigation Monday into a deadly wedding fire that killed more than 100 people last week and slammed the government’s ...
The number of Christians in Iraq today is estimated at 150,000, compared to 1.5 million in 2003. ... a fellow Chaldean Christian who formed a militia called the Babylon Brigades that fought ...
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 ...
With Islamic State expelled, Iraqi Christians are trickling back to the ransacked town of Qaraqosh.