Police in Algeria seal church building
Interrupting a worship service, police on Tuesday sealed a church building in north-central Algeria, less than three months after locking shut another site in the same area. “I am deeply saddened by so much injustice – it breaks my heart,” pastor Messaoud Takilt told Morning Star News. “This is not surprising since other Christian places […]
New Christian in Algeria sentenced for “organising worship” in his home
A Christian father-of-two was given a suspended prison sentence and fined for holding worship at his house in north-west Algeria, reports Morning Star News. Prosecutors had sought a six-month prison sentence and a fine of 500,000 Algerian dinars ($US4,200) for the 35-year-old father in Mostaganem, a coastal town about 350 kilometres west of Algiers, for […]
UN declares Algeria and Argentina free of deadly malaria
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Algeria – the nation where malaria was discovered – is officially free of malaria, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, making it the third African country to eliminate one of the world’s leading killer diseases. An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtains a blood meal from a human host through its pointed […]
LIFESTORY: FAITH COSTS CHRISTIAN IN ALGERIA HIS FAMILY AND LIVELIHOOD
Morning Star News reports on the plight of a 32-year-old Christian convert in Algeria…
Authorities order closure of another church building in Algeria
Morning Star News The official notice that a village pastor in Algeria received on Sunday confirmed what he had heard – his church had been ordered to close. Pastor Rabah Messaoudi had won a legal battle in 2017 after local officials in the Muslim country tried to close his church in Ait-Jimaa village, 45 kilometres […]
Christians in Algeria acquitted of conversion charge
Morning Star News Five Christians in Algeria were acquitted on Tuesday of the charge of inciting a Muslim to change her religion, sources said. A judge at the court of Bouira acquitted Rachid Ouali, whose Muslim wife had filed the charges against him. Ouali, his friend Ali Laarchi, Laarchi’s wife and daughter, and a Christian […]
Algerian court orders reopening of bookshop managed by Christian
World Watch Monitor A bookshop owned by a Christian in Algeria can reopen its doors following a court order, reports Christian advocacy group Middle East Concern. The court’s decision on 13th December annulled an earlier order by the Governor of Oran to close the bookshop in Ain Turk, 30 kilometres west of Oran, on charges of […]
In Algeria, Christian family charged with “inciting a Muslim to change his religion”
World Watch Monitor Four Algerian Christians appeared in court last week, charged with “inciting a Muslim to change his religion” and “performing religious worship in an unauthorised place”, reports Middle East Concern. If found guilty they face to two to five years in prison and a fine of up to one million dinars (approx. $US8,700). […]
Another Algerian church closed
World Watch Monitor An Algerian court has ordered a church in the northern Tizi Ouzou province to close because it lacks the necessary permit, reports Christian advocacy group Middle East Concern. The closure of the church in Ait Djemaa is the latest in a string of closures of Protestant churches over the past year, with another one in July and in […]
Another church building sealed shut in Algeria
Morning Star News Authorities in Algeria sealed shut a church site on Tuesday, even after Christian leaders complied with orders to meet building codes, sources said. In Azaghar village near Akbou, about 185 kilometres east of Algiers in Bejaia Province, Kabylie Region, eight policemen sealed shut the doors of the Church of Jesus Christ, pastor […]