Persecution of Christians is intensifying in Algeria, with increasing church closures and backlash by Muslim families against Christians who are open about their faith. In a recent incident, “Christians in north-central Algeria were kicked out of their churches by police just days after many faithful protested the government’s crackdown on houses of worship.”
“The influence and activity of radical Islamic groups” also pose an additional danger to Christians, and it doesn’t stop there as persecution rises in the country. Authorities are also targeting Christians using Algeria’s blasphemy laws, which are similar to Pakistan’s. Christians have been accused of blasphemy just for being Christian.
In Algeria, it’s forbidden by law to “shake the faith” of a Muslim or to use “means of seduction” to convert a Muslim to another religion.
Black slaves are also being held in Algeria. Racism is so endemic that the New York Times published an article “Black in Algeria? Then You’d Better Be Muslim.” Why? Because then at least if you’re a black Muslim in Nigeria, you might appeal to the sympathies of the rest of the Muslim population.
The plight of Christians and blacks in Islamic Algeria is, as usual, being ignored by Western “human rights” groups and so-called anti-hate networks, because they’re too busy slamming critics of Islam and branding them “Islamophobic” to really care about human rights.
“Algeria shuts down 3 churches days after Christians hold sit-in protest,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, October 17, 2019:
Christians in north-central Algeria were kicked out of their churches by police just days after many faithful protested the government’s crackdown on houses of worship.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a U.K.-based nongovernmental organization that monitors persecution in 20 countries and has consultative status with the U.N., reports that three Algerian Christian churches have been shut down this month.
According to CSW, the number of churches that have been shut down in Algeria so far this year has risen to at least eight.
Since 2017, waves of church closures have been carried out by authorities in the Muslim-majority country on the basis of a 2006 law that requires all non-Islamic places of worship to be authorized by a national government agency.
Critics say that that agency, the National Commission for Non-Muslim Worship, does not actually meet and therefore, applications to build new churches are not considered.
On Wednesday, police shut down The Light Church in the city of Tizi Ouzou in north-central Algeria and evicted worshipers from the church.
The forced closure of The Light Church follows the closing of two other churches this week: Protestant Church of the Full Gospel in Tizi Ouzou and Source of Life Church in the Tizi Ouzou suburb of Makouda….
Buraq says
So, from Al Qaeda to Al Geria! Clowns!
Ned Kelly says
Im tempted to share this on my church’s page, but they will call me racist…they just posted a video of how Christianity is rising in Africa,
Val Lee says
Hi Ned, Why are you afraid of posting truth on your church’s webpage? What kind of a church is this? Does it not stand opposed to Christian persecution? Does it not believe in the Bible? It sounds like the apostasy of the church is grave in your fellowship. Jesus Christ is our only hope—Romans 10:9-10 from the Bible: “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” To learn of God’s personal love for you, please click here: https://vallee7.wordpress.com/category/paradise/
Lotus says
Christine says:
//Since 2017, waves of church closures have been carried out by authorities in the Muslim-majority country on the basis of a 2006 law that requires all non-Islamic places of worship to be authorized by a national government agency.
Critics say that that agency, the National Commission for Non-Muslim Worship, does not actually meet and therefore, applications to build new churches are not considered. //
Maybe we could try that trick in Western countries to close down the mosques. Imagine the howls of protest!
But it is just a dream. Authorities in the West are dopes these days and are incapable of firm action against the trojan horses in our midst.
Kepha says
Given what Beto O’Rourke said not too long ago about taking tax-exemptions away from churches and private schools that don’t hew to the LGBTQ line, I’m sure a lot of the Western leadership looks at what Algeria is doing and think, “Gee, if we had any 外卵, we’d be doing this to our Christians, too!” Both the Islamic world and Communist China took heart from the O administration’s contempt for traditional Christianity and immediately revved up persecution.
Further, our brave, militantly and self-righteously secular Western judiciaries and political elites guess that if they beat up on Christians, they burnish their “anti-religious cred” with the self-appointed smartest people in the room, and also know that if they dare go against Islam in the same manner, they’ll have riots on their hands. Back in the 1990’s, I witnessed the same sort of thing in China’s leadership.
Lotus says
It’s a cunning piece of bureaucratic nonsense – you need an authorisation from an agency that never meets.
Great material for Kafka.
somehistory says
An organization specifically targeting ‘non-moslim’ groups. Probably no signature or permission is ever needed to build a moslim barracks.
Imagine if there was such an agency in the States that was supposed to be consulted before moslims could build their barracks and mega-centers, but that agency never held a meeting to discuss the matter or issue any forms or building permits. moslims would build them anyway and dare anyone to try to stop them.
moslims in that moslim country have their expressions of persecution and hatred of Christianity ready-made. They don’t even need to buy matches or make bombs.
gravenimage says
This is common, Lotus. In Egypt, Christians need permits to build or even repair a church–and such permits are never issued. Ergo, all building is illegal–and can be pulled down by the government or even individual Muslims whenever they decide to do so.
Lotus says
Good point, Graven. As we know, they are applying the Conditxons of Omar.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Lotus.
Here is the Pact of Omar, for those not familiar:
The Status of Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/pact-umar.asp
Lotus says
https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2014/03/24/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/
Tony Naim says
The UN must abolish DHIMMITUDE
Kepha says
You kidding? The United Governments is the biggest aider and abetter of any kind of organized tyranny that comes around.
gravenimage says
Tony, the UN is dominated by Muslim nations and their unfree allies. The UN is never going to address this, let alone try and abolish it.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Time to change the phrase, “radical Islamic groups” to “traditional Islamic groups” (# words matter).
BOYCOTT ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES. THEY ARE CESSPOOLS OF HATRED.
John says
“traditional Islamic groups” Yep just 1005 true followers of the quran, To the Letter, exactly the same way isis does it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWORE6OBfhc&fbclid=IwAR3AaeG7g0QwuVLjKP8oVYvQ1awDy_EYxBGCbfaV-5ughqhY_9qNgMMCaW4
John says
100%, not 1005
Angemon says
“Houses of worship”. Is the government also cracking down on mosques?
Lydia Church says
Interestingly not, maybe they know that these are not true places of worship?!
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The devil knows, that’s why he does it this way.
Linda Rivera says
When they say, Houses of worship, they refer to the Houses of Worship where they know the One True God, the HOLY ONE is worshiped –churches and synagogues. Our Wonderful, Awesome Creator is NOT worshiped in mosques.
Lydia Church says
Just goes to show all of that ‘tolerance’ of islam in action… THIS is the educational field trip I was talking about for anyone who needs to ‘learn more about the real islam’…
And you can’t close down the real church, because it’s the people. The Christians should meet in their homes, underground if need be.
But like others have said, this wave of persecution against Christians has been sweeping all around the world in many places and is also increasing here in the US as we see the storm clouds forming.
Stand your ground folks, stand your ground!
gravenimage says
Algeria: police kick Christians out of churches days after protests over government crackdown on houses of worship
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In other words, protest Islamic crushing of freedom of religion, and Muslims will crush freedom of religion.
Lotus says
The harassment of Christians in Algeria is not an innovation. On the contrary, it is the acting-out of a script which was written long ago, the so-called Conditions of Omar.
Perhaps many on this site are already familiar with this, but for those who are not, here is a useful link explaining them.
These Conditions are important because even today they guide the way Christians are treated in all Muslim-majority countries.
https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2014/03/24/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/
Linda Rivera says
The ANTI-HUMAN RIGHTS UN, the Fascist EU, George Soros, Merkel, Macron, May, Juncker, Brown, Cameron, Tony Blair, Obama, the Clintons, Omar, Tlaib, et al will be DELIGHTED.
toomanyhobbies says
religious precision if this were muslims the press would be all over it like stink in a barn yard
TattooedMan77 says
At least it wasn’t Islamophobia. Because if it was then it would be headlines from the Qatari owned Sky News. (Remember those Rohingas that were never off the air?)