{"id":1833,"date":"2009-12-14T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2009-12-14T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T15:16:15","slug":"algeria-despite-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/algeria-despite-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria: Despite Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Despite laws preventing conversion, Muslims are turning to Christ in what&#8217;s being called an amazing move of the Spirit in Northern Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Algeria put into full effect a new anti-conversion law that prohibited efforts to convert Muslims to another religion and gave the government the right to regulate every aspect of Christian practice. This law was a direct attack against Christians since almost all Algerian Christians are converts from Islam. The new law could make nearly all Christian churches in the country illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this new law, 2009 has been an incredible year for evangelical church growth, says Pastor Youssef Jacob with Operation Mobilization. &#8220;We have churches that have grown 802%. Many converts have come from Islam with no Christian heritage, no Christian background, no resources whatsoever, no training. But they just believe in God and His Word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jacob says the Kabylie people are the most responsive in the Kabylie region, which is home to more than 2,000 towns and villages. &#8220;In every village and every town there are Christians, and there are churches,&#8221; says Jacob. &#8220;In one town, actually there are more churches than mosques, which is a big miracle to happen in the Middle East.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Source:<\/i> <a href='http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/article\/13606'>Mission Network News<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite laws preventing conversion, Muslims are turning to Christ in what&#8217;s being called an amazing move of the Spirit in Northern Algeria. In 2008, Algeria put into full effect a new anti-conversion law that prohibited efforts to convert Muslims to another religion and gave the government the right to regulate every aspect of Christian practice. &#8230; <a title=\"Algeria: Despite Laws\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/algeria-despite-laws\/\" aria-label=\"More on Algeria: Despite Laws\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[933,161,518,39],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-endangered-christians","tag-africa","tag-conversion","tag-muslims","tag-persecution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-tz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}