Algeria

Algeria: Allow re-opening of all Protestant Churches

On 11 March 2021 at the Human Rights Council 46th session, during the Agenda Item 4 General Debate on human rights situations that require the Council’s attention, the World Evangelical Alliance, the World Council of Churches and Christian Solidarity Worldwide expressed grave concern at the ongoing closure of Protestant churches in Algeria. Read our statement.

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Algeria: Protestant Churches Face Arbitrary Closures – Submission to the Human Rights Council

The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), the Middle East Concern (MEC) and the Protestant Church of Algeria, (Église Protestante d’Algérie – EPA) submitted a joint written statement to the Human Rights Council’s 46th session, which will take place from February 22 to March 23, 2021. The statement addresses the forced closure of Protestant churches and refusal

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Algeria: Protestant Churches Forcibly Closed

Over a dozen of churches in Algeria remain forcibly closed by Algeria authorities, in violation of the right to freedom of religion or belief. The World Evangelical Alliance, together with the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches, the Protestant Church of Algeria and the Middle East Concern, raised

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Algérie: La Campagne d’Intimidation contre la Minorité Protestante se Poursuit (Algeria: the Campaign of Intimidation against the Protestant Minority Continues) – Joint Report to the HRC (40th Session)

Déclaration écrite soumise conjointement par la Commission des Églises pour les affaires internationales du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, l’Alliance Evangélique Mondiale, et l’Eglise Protestante d’Algérie au Conseil des Droitsde l’Homme, à l’occasion de sa quarantième session (25 février -22 mars 2019), sous le point 4 de l’ordre du jour : Situations relatives aux droits de

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Algérie: Campagne d’Intimidation contre la Minorité Protestante (Algeria: Campaign of Intimidation against the Protestant Minority) – Joint Report to the HRC 39th session

Déclaration écrite soumise conjointement par la Commission des Églises pour les affaires internationales du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, l’Alliance Evangélique Mondiale, et l’Eglise Protestante d’Algérie au Conseil des Droits de l’Homme, à l’occasion de sa trente-neuvième session (10-28 septembre 2018), sous le point 4 de l’ordre du jour : Situations relatives aux droits de l’homme

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Algeria: Freedom of Religion or Belief – Joint report to the Human Rights Committee 123rd session

The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) , Eglise Protestante Algérienne (EPA) and other organizations submitted in July 2018 to the Human Rights Committee of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ahead of its review of the Algerian government report, a joint report on freedom of religion or belief in Algeria, concerning the discrimination targeting Protestant

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Algeria: Freedom of Religion and Belief – Joint Report to the UPR 27th session

The WEA, jointly with Eglise protestante d’Algérie (EPA), the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) and Aide aux Eglises dans le monde (AEM), submitted a report on religious freedom issues in Algeria, to the 27th session of the UPR. The topics concerned were the closure of churches, administrative discrimination suffered by Protestants, and the prohibition

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