Tag: Mâatkas

Algerian government allows three churches to re-open in June, but now closes another

July 16, 2018 Algeria Aïn Turk, Algeria, Algiers, Bejaia, Mâatkas, Protestant Church of Algeria

In Algeria, the relief of the Protestant minority at the recent re-opening of three churches a month ago has been cut short, after another church was closed last week. On Wednesday (11 July), the building used by a Protestant church in the small town of Riki (8km from Akbou), in . . . Read More

Algerian ‘happy to be free at last’ after jail sentence and fine for carrying Christian items

July 10, 2018 Algeria Aïn Turk, Algeria, Algiers, Idir Hamdad, Mâatkas, Oran, Protestant Church of Algeria, Tizi Ouzou

Algerian Christian Idir Hamdad (World Watch Monitor)

An Algerian Christian given a jail sentence and a fine for carrying a Bible and other Christian items has been acquitted. Idir Hamdad, 29, had been convicted in absentia on 28 September 2017 (though he only learned about this five months later) and given the maximum sentence of six months . . . Read More

Algerian pastor ‘amazed’ as three churches told they can reopen

June 13, 2018 Algeria Aïn Turk, Algeria, Bejaia, Kabylie, Mâatkas, Oran, Protestant Church of Algeria, Tizi Ouzou

Three churches recently closed down by authorities in Algeria’s northern province of Oran have been told they can reopen. The three churches, located in Oran city, Ain Turk (30km west of Oran), and El Ayaida (35km east of Oran), were closed between November 2017 and February 2018. On Sunday, two . . . Read More

Algeria: two more Protestant churches closed down by government

May 29, 2018 Algeria Algeria, Mâatkas, Protestant Church of Algeria

The authorities in Algeria have closed down two more Protestant churches, amidst growing pressure on the country’s Christian minority. Over the past weekend, police sealed off two churches in the north-eastern province of Kabylie, where much of the growth in the Church is happening. One church is in Ait-Mellikeche, a . . . Read More

Algeria: ‘unjust law’ still denying churches their ‘right to worship’

October 19, 2017 Algeria Algeria, Algiers, Mâatkas, Protestant Church of Algeria, Religion Law, Tizi Ouzou

Churches in northern Algeria continue to clash with the authorities over permission to hold services in non-religious buildings. Authorities in Tizi Ouzou province – 100km east of the capital, Algiers – have said a 2006 law that regulates non-Muslim worship is breached by churches meeting in houses meant only for . . . Read More

Algerian churches still fighting for freedom of worship

April 29, 2016 Algeria Algeria, Algiers, Churches, Kabylie, Mâatkas, Protestant Church of Algeria

Churches in Algeria are facing intimidation and harassment, despite constitutional provisions guaranteeing freedom of worship in the country. On Sunday 24 April, 2016, a church in Mâatkas, in the north-eastern region of Kabylie, was ordered to cease all religious activities on the grounds that it was in breach of a . . . Read More

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