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The Ba’athist rule under Saddam Hussein kept anti-Christian violence under control but subjected some to "relocation programmes". [4] Under this regime, the predominantly ethnically and linguistically distinct Assyrian people were pressured to identify as Arabs. The Christian population fell to an estimated 800,000 during the 2003 Iraq War. [4]
Aziz began to rise through the ranks of Iraqi politics after the Ba'ath party came to power in 1968. He was the sole Christian holding a position of power during Hussein's rule. [12] Aziz became close to Saddam Hussein who heavily promoted him. He became a member of General Affairs Bureau of the Revolutionary Command Council.
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 ...
Saddam Hussein [c] (28 April 1937 ... Georges Sada, another Christian was a top advisor to Saddam. Michel Aflaq, the founder of Ba'athism, was also a Christian.
The ethnic make-up of the Iraq Interim Governing Council briefly (September 2003 – June 2004) guiding Iraq after the invasion included a single Assyrian Christian, Younadem Kana, a leader of the Assyrian Democratic Movement and an opponent of Saddam Hussein since 1979.
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. [85]
Sacred Heart Chaldean Catholic Church. The Sacred Heart Chaldean Church (Imperial Aramaic: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܠܒܗ ܕܡܪܢ ܕܟܠܕܝ̈ܐ, romanized: ʿēttāʾ d-lebbēh d-māran d-ḵaldāyēʾ) was a Chaldean Catholic church located in Chaldean Town, a neighborhood in Detroit on 7 Mile Road.
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.