Algeria News News Algeria » Religion: Algeria inaugurates world’s third-largest mosque ahead of Ramadan
Algeria has inaugurated the world’s third-largest and Africa’s largest mosque, which had been delayed for years amid political shifts, ahead of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Algerian President ...
News Algeria » Religion: Algeria’s fragile Catholic community could play host to Pope Leo XIV in historic first visit
Leo faced a similar balancing act during his November visit to Turkey, encouraging the Catholic community without challenging the state religion. He would encounter comparable dynamics in Algeria, ...
News Algeria » Religion: Before Pope Leo Lands in Algeria, Advocates Want the World to Know What Christians Face There
Ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s expected visit to Algeria in April, advocates told the U.N. Human Rights Council that Christians there face laws that criminalize conversion and shutter churches. Participants ...
News Algeria » Religion: Profile of the Church in Algeria
The Church in Algeria has 8,740 Catholics, or 0.2% of the total Algerian population of 45,398,000, according to statistics in the new (2025) edition of the Annuario Pontificio [Pontifical Yearbook], ...
News Algeria » Religion: Leo to become first pope to visit Muslim Algeria
Leo XIV will become the first pope to visit Algeria on Monday, taking a message of dialogue with Islam on a trip that also represents a personal pilgrimage for the American pontiff. Algeria is the ...