Tag: Oran

‘Intensified campaign’ against Algeria’s churches

January 3, 2018 Algeria Aïn Turk, Algeria, Bejaia, Churches, Kabylie, Oran, Protestant Church of Algeria, Tizi Ouzou

Churches and individual Christians in Algeria have faced increased restrictions in recent months, raising concerns that these pressures signal a “coordinated campaign of intensified action against churches by the governing authorities”, according to Christian advocacy group Middle East Concern. On 19 December, three Christians were arrested in Chlef, 200km north-west . . . Read More

Algerian church closed for ‘illegally printing Bibles and material intended for evangelism’

November 20, 2017 Algeria Aïn Turk, Algeria, Bibles, Churches, Oran, Proselytism, Protestant Church of Algeria

A church in Algeria’s north-western town of Aïn Turk (15km from Oran city) has been closed down by local authorities. The church, affiliated to the Protestant Church of Algeria (known as EPA, its French acronym), was sealed off by police on 9 November. Authorities in Oran claimed the church had . . . Read More

Algerian Christians: ‘We must not yield to fear’

October 1, 2014 Algeria Algeria, Bejaia, Kabylie, Oran, Tizi Ouzou

Notre Dame d’Afrique basilica in AlgiersWorld Watch Monitor The assassination of a French tourist by militants in Algeria has raised the fear of new terrorist attacks in the country. Hervé Gourdel, 55, was beheaded on September 24 by a radical Islamist group, ‘Soldiers of the Caliphate’ linked to Islamic . . . Read More

Algeria’s potential ‘Arab Spring’

April 15, 2014 Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Oran, Tunisia

A small group of protesters pre-empts a rally planned for Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on April 5 in Bejaia.Special to World Watch Monitor The so-called Arab Spring has seen the overthrow of several Presidents across North Africa: first in Tunisia, then Mubarak in Egypt, followed by Gaddafi in Libya . . . Read More

Algerian faces 5 years in prison for sharing Christian faith

December 2, 2012 Algeria Oran

Accusers who say an Algerian Christian insulted Islam provided no evidence to a judge hearing the Christian’s appeal of his original sentence. Karim Siaghi, a convert to Christianity, was sentenced in May 2011 to five years in prison and fined 200,000 Algerian Dinars, or about U.S. $2,500, even though prosecutors . . . Read More

Algeria stalls appeal of convicted Christian

December 15, 2011 Algeria Algeria, Oran, Protestant Church of Algeria

A judge’s decision this month to indefinitely postpone the appeal of a Christian sentenced under Algeria’s defamation and anti-proselytizing laws shows how the judicial system keeps Christians in limbo without officially punishing or acquitting them, according to sources. In May a judge in Oran, 470 kilometers (292 miles) west of . . . Read More

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