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[39] 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. [45] 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 ...
The Iraqi Christian Relief Council (ICRC) is an Assyrian-based [2] [4] Christian nonprofit organization founded in 2007 by Assyrian activist Juliana Taimoorazy. [2] The ICRC describes its primary purpose as being to advance the humanitarian and political protection of persecuted Assyrian Christians who live in post-war Iraq, [1] [5] whose population has dwindled from 1,500,000 in 2003 [6] [7 ...
Christians remain the most persecuted religious group in the Middle East, and Christians in Iraq are “close to extinction”. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] According to estimates by the US State Department , the number of Christians in Iraq has fallen from 1.2 million 2011 to 120,000 in 2024, and the number in Syria from 1.5 million to 300,000, falls ...
The number of Christians in Iraq today is estimated at 150,000, compared to 1.5 million in 2003. Iraq’s total population is more than 40 million.
Iraq was estimated to have nearly 1.5 million Christians before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. Now, church officials estimate only a few hundred thousand, or even ...
A report titled "The Global Persecution Index 2025," released by the ICC on Thursday, outlined which nations have become the biggest offenders when it comes to religious oppression, particularly ...
Christians are believed to have lived in Iraq since the first century AD. In 2003, Iraq counted one million Christians according to The New York Times [13] on a population of 26 million; [14] the estimate of Syriac Catholic officials was then 2½ million Christians. [4] Between 2003 and 2007, 40% of the refugees fleeing Iraq were Christian.
The fire happened in Iraq’s Nineveh province in its Hamdaniya area, authorities said. Television footage showed flames rushing over the wedding hall as the fire took hold. Civil defense ...