Shafaq News /Deputy Patriarch of the Chaldeans in Jordan, Father Raymond Joseph Moussalli Said to "Shafaq  News", "since 2003, and to some extent now up to one hundred thousand Christians migrated from Iraq, about half of them went to Syria, and the other half went to Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey."The number of Christians in Iraq in 2003 was 800 thousand people, according to statistics of international organizations and international, and their presence is concentrated in the capital Baghdad, where the largest population them reside and in the plain of Nineveh, near Mosul, while they are in Dohuk, Erbil, Mosul, Basra, Amara, Hillah, Baquba and Habbaniyah, Kirkuk and others  in which they have churches."More than four thousand Iraqi Christians entered Jordan in 2011, and more than six thousand emigrated from Iraq during the same year," He said ,noting that "most Christians have emigrated to Jordan this year, unlike last year, in which they were hosted in Syria, mostly" .

The Vicar of the Chaldeans in Jordan, said "Many Christians have emigrated from Iraq because of targeting that got this right and that made their situation is the security of a final, and secondly because of the sectarian division which is going on in Iraq, which made the Christian marginalized in the departments and all Iraqi institutions," he said.

The focus of Christians in Iraq is in the Kurdistan Region as a large number of members of the Christian religion displaced from Baghdad, Mosul and other provinces as a result of the security situation and many of them were killed.

Iraq, contains four Christian denominations main Chaldean followers of the Church of the East converts to Catholicism, and Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholics, and a host of Latin Catholics, followers of the Assyrian Church of the East, in addition to small numbers of followers of the churches of the Armenians.