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Meeting Raided in Morocco
- by AWM
- posted Wed, Feb 24, 2010, 3:01 p.m.
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Christians in Morocco are concerned. A recent raid took place on a meeting of believers. Sixty policemen, including a colonel, following orders from the new justice minister, arrested those at the meeting: 18 Moroccans (including children and non-believers) and the American teaching at the meeting. All were questioned and released; the American was taken to the airport and expelled.
This is not the first incident of this kind, which is why there is concern. Christians in Morocco are concluding that there is a new national policy concerning Moroccan Christians, who would all be from a Muslim background.
An expat living in Morocco says:
The Moroccan church is growing and I think the government is trying to figure out how this is happening. With the Islamic fundamentalists, they know how this [growth] is happening. Money comes in from Saudi Arabia and the Emirates and is given to the poor in the ...
Protestant Church Burned in Algeria
- by AWM
- posted Tue, Jan 12, 2010, 11:45 a.m.
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On Saturday a church in Tizi Ouzou, 60 miles east of Algeria's capital, was looted and had its contents set on fire by anti-Christian rioters. Members of the church fled the building earlier, in fear because of the unpoliced presence of the rioters.
According to the Associated Press - who spoke directly by telephone to Mustapha Krim, the head of the Algerian Protestant Church Association - the looters set fire to Bibles and other books, and desecrated crosses among other things.
According to Krim, 'Islamist Intolerance considers there is no room for Christian religious practices in Algeria'. He also alleged that the incident was 'fuelled by what just happened in Egypt' where six were shot and killed during Christmas celebrations. There has also been persecution in Malaysia.
The Protestant Church in Algeria has complained to the authorities who, says Krim, 'don't want to get involved because they're worried of ...
