Pastor Youssef Ourahamane, a Christian convert and church leader in Algeria, is appealing his conviction of ‘illegal worshipping’ for participating in and leading Emmanuel Church in Algeria.
Pastor Youssef, who was born into a Muslim home but as a student converted to Christianity, has been convicted for his involvement and leadership at his church.
He received a sentence of 2 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 Algerian dinars on 2 July 2023. He has appealed the conviction for a second time in a court in Tizi Ouzo, Algeria.
Pastor Youssef is one of the leading figures in the Eglise Protestante d’Algérie (EPA), the Evangelical Protestant group whose 43 churches have been forcibly closed by the authorities since 2019, leaving only one with its doors open today.
