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Africa North
Closure of seven churches for non compliance in Bejaia
2011-05-26
[Ennahar] Algerian authorities have ordered the closing of seven Protestant churches in the region of Bejaia in Kabylia (east)
Where???
Clearly we need to invest in new maps. But where are we to store them?
because they do not meet conditions set by law on the exercise of a religion in this country, told AFP Wednesday the head of the Protestant Church of Algeria.
Protestants? They didn't exist at the time of Mohammed.
"We received a notification on May 8 from the prefect of Bejaia asking us to close the seven churches located in the region," said Pastor Mustaphan Krim.

"No reasons were given. But it seems that this decision was taken in February 2006 law" requiring official authorization for the exercise of religion of non-Mohammedans," he added.

"We will continue our activities because our churches existed before the law. We have contacted the authorities for our compliance with this law but we are faced with obstacles," said the president of the EPA.
They don't want you to exercise your religion, so obstacles anti-miraculously appear.
The exercise of a religion, Mohammedan or non Mohammedan, is conditioned in Algeria to obtain an approval determining the place of worship and another for the preacher, according to a law enacted in February 2006.

The exercise of non-Mohammedan worship is recognized by the Algerian Constitution which also recognizes the freedom of conscience.

"We are not against the practice of religions other than Islam. We invite non-Mohammedan religious to comply with the law" said the prefect of Bejaia, Hammou Touhami, quoted by the French-language daily El Watan Wednesday.

"We ask them to comply with the law. Some exercise their worship in garages," said the prefect.

The Evangelist church progresses in Algeria, particularly in Kabylia, and its followers would reach according to Mustaphan Krim, some 30,000 faithful.
All of whom no doubt used to be something else. But under Sharia law, conversion may only be to Islam, not to another religion. Freedom of conscience, my foot.
Algerian religious leaders had repeatedly denounced illegal evangelical activities against Islam the state religion and religion of the majority of Algerians.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Kabylia is in east Algeria, where the Berbers live. The have traditionally been treated like second class citizens by the "Arabs" (actually people who forgot their original language and culture and went with the new rulers).

The Berbers have been disatisfied with their lot under Islam. In Berbers have been attracted to other religions as a result.
Posted by: Frozen Al   2011-05-26 14:08  

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