Algeria: Catholic Church Beatifies 19 Murdered Clerics From Algeria's Civil War

8 December 2018

<i>The beatification ceremony, held in the Algerian city of Oran, was the first of its kind in a Muslim nation. The Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 during the decade-long conflict.</i>

Nineteen monks, nuns and other Catholics who were killed during Algeria's civil war were beatified on Saturday, in the first step towards becoming Roman Catholic saints.

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