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On February 10 and 11, 2010, the Algerian ministry for religious affairs organized an unprecedented event, an international colloquium on the topic: “Freedom of worship, a right guaranteed by religion and the law”.
This forum united about 200 people in Algiers around the minister Dr. Ghlamallah, among them different representatives from the religious, political and academic world. On the side of the Christians, the Catholics and the Protestants were heard, but not the Evangelicals.
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Once again the Christians of Morocco feel threatened after another incident on February 4th.
In the town of Amizmiz, 40 miles south of Marrakech, a bible study attended by 18 people (four of them children) was interrupted by the military. All of them were arrested and held for 14 hours. Bibles and computers were confiscated. The military, including three dignitaries and 60 army officers, indicated that they acted on the order of the new Moroccan Minister of Justice and the highest ranking police commander.
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The five countries of North Africa are always among fifty persecuting countries listed by "Open Doors," a Christian ministry that specializes in the defence of persecuted churches and Christians worldwide. The ministry has just released its annual "WorldWatchList," ranking the persecuting countries (see www.opendoors.org). North Korea is still at the head of the list, followed by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Somalia.
The situation of Christians in North Africa, on the whole, is deteriorating. All these countries are moving up on this black list, except for Algeria, which went from 19th to 25th.
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The Tafat Protestant Church building in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, was set on fire on January 9th, around 11:00 pm. "Tafat" means "light" in the Berber language. According to the church's pastor, Mustapha Krireche, "around twenty "bearded" men broke into the church, destroyed the chairs and doors and then set the building on fire."
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The qualification of the Algerian national soccer team for the World Cup championship playoffs has ignited a tidal wave of emotion in Algeria and beyond. The magnitude of this excitement was such that the French magazine Jeune Afrique stated: "The explosion of joy that followed the qualification of the Algerian team is without precedent. In the history of this young Republic, no other event has caused such passions. Even independence in 1962, when "information highways" were still science fiction, didn't arouse such fervour, such passion, and such beautiful communion (...) And this absolute joy wasn't limited to Algeria. It reached the suburbs of Montreal, Dakar, the riverbanks of the Thames, the seaport of Marseille."
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CNA or Channel North Africa, is an association that started in the year 2000 by the efforts of several partners who wished to broadcast the Gospel into North Africa using audiovisual materials. The vision of CNA is to see the peoples of North Africa reconciled with God, regenerated and transformed by the Gospel in the communities in which they live.
