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US State Department 2017 Report on Religious Freedom
« on: July 28, 2018, 03:24:44 pm »
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US State Department 2017 Report on Religious Freedom
Posted 2018-05-31 13:58 GMT

(AINA) -- The US State Department published its annual International Religious Freedom Report for 2017 on Tuesday. The following are excerpts from the report concerning Assyrians in Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq.

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Christian leaders estimate there are fewer than 250,000 Christians remaining in the country, with the largest population -- at least 200,000 -- living in the Ninewa Plain and the IKR. The Christian population has declined over the past 15 years from a pre-2002 population estimate of between 800,000 and 1.4 million persons. Approximately 67 percent of Christians are Chaldean Catholics (an eastern rite of the Roman Catholic Church), and nearly 20 percent are members of the Assyrian Church of the East. The remainder are Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Armenian Apostolic, and Anglican and other Protestants. There are approximately 3,000 evangelical Christians in the IKR.

Read more at: http://aina.org/news/20180531095856.htm


A May report but it is still pertinent, a population of 800,000 to 1.4 million Christians in 2002 to fewer than 250,000 nowadays. Not sure what happened?

I'm sure we will hear from those who were dismayed similarly and  spoke out about human rights in North Korea.
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