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"The Taliban are offering money for Afghans to turn in any Christians they know. And Afghans are desperate, further heightening the security risk [to] Christians." mnnonline, April 3, 2023, Afghanistan. [P]olice raided a large group of Christians, ....
Church of Our Lady of La Palma in Algeciras, Spain. / Credit: Faconaumanni (CC BY-SA 3.0) Wikimedia CommonsACI Prensa Staff, Apr 28, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).On Jan. 25 a young Moroccan national identified as Yassine Kanjaa carried out jihadist attacks in Algeciras, Spain, killing a sacristan and seriously wounding a priest in two different incidents.The General Commissariat of Information, an intelligence service under Spain s National Police, compiled two reports on the attacks dated Jan. 29 and Jan. 30. Europa Press recently gained access to them and on April 26 published details reconstructing events.The reports state that according to Father Antonio Rodríguez Lucena, who was wounded, the attacker was not provoked: "Nobody did anything that could bother him."In his testimony, the priest said that Kanjaa told a parishioner that "the Christian faith is negative and must be eliminated."According to the reports to which Europa Press has had access, the attack began at ....
Minister of the Interior of Spain Fernando Grande-Marlaska. / Credit: Spain Ministry of the InteriorACI Prensa Staff, Feb 27, 2023 / 11:25 am (CNA).The Observatory for Religious and Conscience Freedom (OLRC) has reproached the Spanish government for its "silence and inaction" in the face of a jihadist attack perpetrated last month in Algeciras, a town on the southern end of the Iberian peninsula near the Strait of Gibraltar.The president of the OLRC, María García, sent a letter to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, reproaching the lack of reaction to the direct attack on Catholics.García considers the "the silence and inaction" of the executive branch of government to be inexplicable in this case in which an individual of Moroccan origin, Yassin Kanjaa, attacked several churches in Algeciras in the Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta.In the course of the attack, sacristan Diego Valencia was murdered and Father Antonio Rodríguez, a Salesian priest, w ....