First Independent Mena Newspaper
The United States has denounced the continuing violations of religious freedom in Algeria wherein non-Muslim minority groups and Shiites suffer unabated harassment, persecution and growing restrictions. In its 2022 International Religious Freedom Report, the State Department says the Algerian authorities continued in 2022 to arrest, jail, and fine Christians on charges of proselytizing, citing in […]
Tunisian authorities have closed down the Jewish Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba a day after an attack carried out by a security force claimed the lives of two civilians and three other security forces. The shrine saw Wednesday a stronger presence of security forces who have been mobilized to set up security. President […]
A Tunisian security officer killed two of his colleagues and two visitors of a synagogue, in an attack that bodes ill for Tunisia’s image and its slowly recovering tourism sector. The attack targeted an old synagogue in Djerba, crowded with visitors and hundreds of Jewish pilgrims from Europe and Israel. The attacker, a police officer […]
A delegation from the American Jewish Committee conferred on Wednesday in Rabat with Moroccan Foreign minister Nasser Bourita on U.S.-Moroccan relations and latest developments on regional & international scene. This is the third visit by AJC to the North African Kingdom since the signing of the Abraham Accords in December 2020 between the United States, […]
US President Barack Obama praised Wednesday the initiatives made worldwide to enhance the protection of religious minorities, giving as an instance the conference on religious minorities’ rights in Muslim countries that just concluded its proceedings in Marrakech the same day. In remarks he made at Righteous among Nations Award Ceremony held in Washington on the […]