A repentant "Christian" has revealed his story with Christianity and different contradictions for over 6 years he has been living among Christians in Tizi Ouzou province (100 km east of Algiers). The 36-year-old man is a poor orphan and suffers from a disease which needs a surgery. A Christian sect in Tizi Ouzou seized the opportunity of his social crisis to convince him that Christianity would resolve all his problems. He was given money, a comfortable house and a decent job among Christian leaders in Tizi Ouzou. He was also promised to be helped in all necessary procedures for his surgery and marrying a French woman. "I belived in all these promises during the time I was frequenting different Christian sects in Tizi Ouzou," he said. "But I started having doubts in this belief all that time and my dreams became illusions," he added. The man said he followed that sect because he believed in it. He used to go for prayer at Tizi Ouzou's churches in shabby clothes but Christians were asking him to change his style, shave his beard and put on suitable clothes to enter the churches. The man shaved his beard and bought a new suit. At a church in Tizi Ouzou, he was surprised by warm welcome there. Then, he was wondering what the purpose of Christianity is after those Christians ignored because he looked poor.
God for poor and another one for rich
He did not hide his confusion about Christianity and declared it at the church explaining the difference of those Christians' behaviour with him before and after he changed his style. "I believed that there are two gods; one for the poor and another one for rich and those who wear suits," he said. After 6 years, the repentant Christian realized that he was wrong. He noticed that the Christians he met were friendly with each other on the basis of interests and not according to divine religions. "I realised that they will not treat me from my disease. They prefer getting friendlier with the rich," he said.
Russian on a secrete mission
The man met Thierry Constantinophe, a Russian Orthodox preacher who came to Algeria for evangelisation purposes. His mission was to activate different Catholic churches which used to work in Tizi Ouzou. The man told Echorouk that the preacher agreed with him on giving him a room in Tizi Ouzou in return for providing the preacher with information about the town and helping him in accomplishing his mission in Algeria.
In the beginning, the man was happy and had big hopes in future but he started discovering exciting and frightening facts. The preacher was illegally staying in Algeria as he was renting an apartment in Tizi Ouzou in the name of another person. According to reliable sources, the Russian entered Algeria throughout France after he had got a visa from Algerian consulate in Paris. He was moving from a village to another in Tizi Ouzou carrying his laptop and gathering information about people there, according to the repentant man. The Russian preacher's goals were reopening churches and setting up a training centre for Christians in Tizi Ouzou.
Strange practices
The Russian's house was a place for prayer. There were a Cross and some statutes of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. He was praying 8 times per day inviting many new Christians to pray with him and participate in Orthodox practices. Then, he gave them money to main them at his service.
The man said a man from Boumerdes province (50 km east of Algiers) and a woman from Tizi Ouzou were living in the Russian preacher's house. They were everyday taking special courses in ways used in evangelisation. He was hearing all sounds coming from their room as they had sex. "That was an animal relation. Shouting coming from their room and the sound of whacks on the woman's body were indicating that."
Six months later, the man reminded the Russian preacher of his promises but the latter said he did not know him and drove him away from the apartment.