Contents
- Home
- News
- Churches seek to prevent more stabbings
- Bishops question the clergy’s ability to cope
- Synodsman scents conspiracy against ‘multifaith’ motion
- Chester among doubters as Stafford draws Fritzl moral
- Pay the poor to help them buy food, says UN
- Church leaders ask UN to help Anglicans in Zimbabwe
- Parish buys the village post office
- Lambeth walk planned for the poor
- The game: to win Euro 2008 for Christ
- Peacock to take his eye off the ball
- A good innings here and there despite the rain
- ‘Could do better’ says Amnesty on human rights
- Bird’s-eye view
- Dalai Lama praises religions, differences, and meditation
- Algerians sentenced
- Lebanese fill top job
- Dig this
- News in brief
- Rugged cross
- Interim bishop for Manicaland after Jakazi excommunicated
- Palace icons
- Worldwide pulpits
- Grand designs
- All quiet in Saltley, says Vicar
- Lambeth summit on Islam
- Muslim survey
- Devon clerics condemn bombs
- Comic backdrop
- Jewish students ‘burn NT’
- Surge
- Measure offers six new ways to get married in church
- First, find a machete (or open a tin) . . .
- Young love
- Woodbridge feels the energy with Jim Wallis
- Question of the week
- Comment
- Letters
- Real Life
- Features
- Faith
- Humour and crossword
- Pastimes
- Books
- Arts
- Media
- Gazette
 back to News |
 previous story
|
next story 
|
Algerians sentenced
FOUR CHRISTIANS in Algeria have been fined and given suspended prison sentences by a court in the south-western town of Tiaret for “illegally practising a non-Muslim faith”. Two others were acquitted, writes Gerald Butt. The lawyer for the convicted Christians said that her clients would appeal. Another court in Algeria will be hearing the appeal of two other Algerian Christians who received similar sentences last year on similar charges. Under changes in the law introduced two years ago, religious worship is allowed only in buildings approved by the state. Since then, about 20 churches and a number of mosques have been closed down. The state-run Higher Islamic Council in Algeria has accused Protestant Evangelicals of seeking to convert Muslims as a way of dividing and colonising the country. But the head of Algeria’s Protestant Church, Mustapha Krim, in a written statement, appealed to “Algeria’s highest authorities to respect the constitutional law which allows for freedom of worship, to put an end to persecutions which target the Christian community and safeguard their right to practise their religion freely.” |
| back to News |
 back to top |
previous story
|
next story
|
%231%23.gif "Wordl Vision Sponsor a child Nov to Dec campaign © site")
.gif "Caris Magazine for girls aged 11 to 16 © site")
