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Algeria: Persecution of Christians escalates with more church closures

Sep 28, 2019 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Authorities in Algeria have “sealed shut a church building in Tigzirt, Algeria, two days after shutting another building serving two churches without prior notice.” Yet again, the world turns a blind eye to the Islamic persecution of Christians. According to Open Doors USA, Islamic “restrictive laws regulating non-Muslim worship, banning conversion and prohibiting blasphemy put Christians at extreme risk.”

In a report by the Guardian about genocidal levels of Christian persecution, Algeria was also named:

In countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia the situation of Christians and other minorities has reached an alarming stage. In Saudi Arabia there are strict limitations on all forms of expression of Christianity including public acts of worship.

African migrants also report that they are enduring “torture and slavery” in Algeria.

“Christians in Algeria Hit with More Church Closures,” Morning Star News, September 26, 2019:

TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – Authorities today sealed shut a church building in Tigzirt, Algeria, two days after shutting another building serving two churches without prior notice, sources said.

Acting on orders from the governor of Tizi-Ouzou Province, eight police officers arrived at 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday (Sept. 24) at the Church of Boghni building and sealed the doors and windows of the Protestant church building in Boghni, 35 kilometers (21 miles) southwest of the city of Tizi-Ouzou, pastor Tahar Chergui said.

“I was surprised when one of the police officers contacted me to meet them at the site where our church is,” Pastor Chergui told Morning Star News. “I had not received any notice; they went straight to proceed with the closure by sealing. They could have warned us before; why didn’t they?”

The building serves the 190 members of Pastor Chergui’s church as well as another Protestant church serving nearly 200 people from Assi-Youcef village, he said.

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Filed Under: Algeria, Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Boghni, Tahar Chergui, Tizi-Ouzou Province


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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 12:41 pm

    The hateful and vicious Muslim persecution of Christians is tragically on the rise in the nation of Algeria.

    There are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians, not only in Algeria but also in other Islamic countries

    Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against them and burn their Bibles. One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]

    It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.

  2. Infidel says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    There are Christians in Algeria? I thought they had all left w/ the French after independence

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 28, 2019 at 5:18 pm

      There have been Christians in North Africa since long before the Muslim invasion. Estimates vary, but there are between 20,000 to 200.000 Christians surviving in Algeria today.

      • Infidel says

        Sep 28, 2019 at 7:03 pm

        Yeah, but wouldn’t they have fled after the Islamic conquests of the 8th century? During the Moorish rule?

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 29, 2019 at 7:32 pm

          No, they didn’t all flee. Algeria was Christian-majority at the time of the Muslim conquest. It took centuries for the Christian population to become so reduced. This is true over most of Dar-al-Islam.

  3. somehistory says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 3:57 pm

    They must have plans to use the buildings or they could have razed them…without notice.

    moslims are feeling empowered all over the earth because they are getting away with the slaughter of Christians in so many places…without much of a peep from those who might make a difference. Any church that does not invite them in for a preying session is likely to be taken over or burned to the ground.

    Jesus warned His disciples that they would be hated and persecuted.

    • Angemon says

      Sep 28, 2019 at 4:25 pm

      Desecrating non-islamic temples and turning them into mosques is a time-honored islamic tradition…

      • somehistory says

        Sep 28, 2019 at 4:56 pm

        Yes, those are the “plans” I was thinking of when I wrote the comment.

        • ninetyninepct says

          Sep 29, 2019 at 9:52 am

          The Muslim ISIS leaders said years ago that they will spread their filth and terror across the belly of Africa and intend to infect Central America. That is exactly what they are doing on their way to America and Canada with the help and support of Democrats and Trudeau’s Liberals.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 28, 2019 at 5:18 pm

        Grimly true, Angemon.

  4. gravenimage says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 5:22 pm

    Algeria: Persecution of Christians escalates with more church closures
    ……………………

    These poor Christians. There is no part of Dar-al-Islam where Christians and other Infidels do not face persecution.

    More:

    African migrants also report that they are enduring “torture and slavery” in Algeria.
    ……………………

    Horrifying but not surprising. Where is christianblood, to tell us that Muslims were only enslaving Christians in Libya, and only there because of the supposed actions of the US? The US has not had a presence in Algeria. Of course, this is all due to Islam, not America.

  5. Battle says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 9:28 pm

    If Islam is so much better, locking Christian churches would not have to be done. The governor who ordered this has no “Do unto others …” Golden Rule, and has no ” Love thy neighbor. The governor is afraid of Christian’s. Christianphobic.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 29, 2019 at 7:33 pm

      Good point, Battle.

  6. TattooedMan77 says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 6:19 am

    And the silence from the BBC and MSM is deafening.

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