Morning Star News Algeria Correspondent

A group of Christians arrested on Dec. 12 received a reduction in their sentence for “unauthorized worship” last week, one of those convicted said.

On December 1, a Christian convert from Islam received a six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 100,000 Algerian dinars (US$716) from an...

On Thursday, an Algerian Judge sentenced a Christian to six months in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of 100,000 dinars for allegedly...

According to sources, less than a week after a court in Algeria ordered pastor Rachid Seighir’s church to close, a judge in a separate case gave...

After being released from prison in 2018, having served nearly two years for violating Algeria’s blasphemy laws, Slimane Bouhafs was driven to...

The five-year prison sentence on a man who reportedly shared a carton on social media blaspheming Islam’s prophet has been upheld in Algeria.

A pastor and another Christian in Algeria have been convicted and sentenced in absentia to two years in prison and a heavy fine for reportedly...

After sharing a cartoon about the prophet of Islam three years ago, a 43-year-old father of four has been sentenced to five years in prison.

An ordered to close a church was issued last year but according to the church's pastor, he was never told of such an order.

Authorities in Algeria on Wednesday (Oct. 16) closed the Tafath (Light) church building in Tizi-Ouzou, a day after sealing shut the country’s...

A Christian protest of Algeria’s church closures resulted in an order on Sunday (Oct. 13) to seal the church building of the head of the umbrella...

Authorities today sealed shut a church building in Tigzirt, Algeria, two days after shutting another building serving two churches without prior...

After Christians fended off an attempt to close a church building in Algeria on Aug. 26, gendarmes arrived early Monday morning (Sept. 2) and...

A brigade of gendarmerie showed up at an evangelical worship site in Algeria on Monday (Aug. 26) to execute the latest of several church closure...

Interrupting a worship service, police on Tuesday (Aug. 6) sealed a church building in north-central Algeria, less than three months after locking...

A judge on June 16 handed a Christian father of two in northwest Algeria a suspended prison sentence and a hefty fine for holding worship at his...

Authorities in north-central Algeria sealed shut another church building on Wednesday (May 22), closing it and its Bible school, Christian leaders...

A convert from Islam in Algeria whose Muslim wife charged him with inciting her to change her religion won a final court battle in April – after...