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tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
answer › question first answered	2019-05-22T12:01:07.953Z
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
registered interest	false
max date	2019-05-20
max answer › date of answer	2019-06-03

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Iraq: Christianity

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To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 5 February (HL13010), what assessment they have made of the report by the Institute of Development Studies The Persecution of Christians in the Middle East, published in 2017, that estimates that in 2003 there were approximately 1.5 million Christians in Iraq, and that in 2017 that number was between 200,000 and 250,000.

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Lord Alton of Liverpool

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22/05/2019

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<p>While we are unable to confirm the exact numbers, we are gravely concerned about the decline in the numbers of Christians in Iraq in recent years as also cited in the independent interim report of the Bishop of Truro into the Persecution of Christians. We assess that a number of factors have resulted in this decline, including conflict and insecurity in Iraq and the particular threat posed by Daesh. We continue to engage with the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government on the need to protect the rights of Christians and other religious minorities. However, during a recent meeting with the Iraqi Foreign Minister on the 17 May and the Archbishop of Erbil on 21 May I heard of the steps being taken to reopen churches and the increased number of church services being help in Iraq.</p>

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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

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22/05/2019 12:01:07

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