Chaldean National Congress [SEP] inception
Chaldean National Congress
Chaldean National Congress is an Iraqi political party that was found in 2002 in the United States with Dhia Putros being named the first secretary of the party. After 10 years, Putros quit his post in 2012 and accepted the position of chairman of Human Rights in Iraqi Kurdistan.
On August 31, 2017 on the ankawa.com website the US-based Chaldean National Congress strongly criticized an August 6 speech of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghdad in which, according to an Agenzia Fides news description "Patriarch Louis Raphael
the Chaldean National Congress Party. Upon their demands, the Iraqi constitution of 2005 in Article 125 mentions Chaldeans as a distinct group. Several conferences on Chaldean nationalism were held, and a flag was designed.
Condition of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
The 1896 census of the Chaldean Catholics counted 233 parishes and 177 churches or chapels, mainly in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey. The Chaldean Catholic clergy numbered 248 priests; they were assisted by the monks of the Congregation of St. Hormizd, who numbered about one hundred. There