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Religious Affairs Minister calls on Algerian facing up Christianization campaigns
The Minister of Religious Affairs, Mr. Ghlamallah Bouabdellah, has called on the Algerian people to stand up against the Christianization campaigns targeting some regions across Algeria, we are all accountable, but not only the public authorities, the Minister was quoted saying.Muslims do not accept seeing their holy symbols to be attacked, said the Minister in a news conference, on the wake of the works of the 9th Quran Meeting which extended along one week, calling the Algerian people to face up to the campaigns aiming at undermining the Muslims holy symbols, inciting to defend the identity and the unity of the nation, I am quite sure all Algerians agree with me, he added. In this regard, Mr. Ghlamallah indicated he applied for the Ministry of Home Affairs, to provide him the list of the registered Christian associations, while ordering to convene its chairmen to regularize their situation with the concerned services, adding that the associations law is clear, as they are obliged to renew their bodies, their agency, their status law, and their rules of procedure. About whether the associations shall abide by a deadline religious affairs minister said it is of the prerogatives of the interior ministry. He said the number of the churches is 8 Anglican, protestant and catholic ones. They are to abide by law or their activity is to be banned. Moreover, 96 Imams, or martyrs as the minister described them, have been killed by terrorists, while announcing that the Ministry is elaborating a biography for each of the killed Imams, to be edited in an illustrated encyclopaedia, with the view of keep their martyrdom in memory. Posted by: Fred 2008-03-25 |
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