A group of Muslims attempted to take over a Christian basilica in Tunisia in an ominous sign of the growing threat to the country’s small Church in the wake of the revolution.
The group of around 20 Muslims went on 16 September to the Roman site in the town of Kef with the aim of turning it into a mosque; they argued that it was a place of Muslim worship before it reverted to a basilica in 1966.
An interior ministry spokesman said that the group went there to prepare the place for Friday prayers but police dispersed them. They have been invited to make an official request to the faith ministry, he said, adding, “As things stand, the monument remains a basilica.”
The incident is a worrying sign of what may become of Tunisia’s small Christian community if the country’s future is shaped by an Islamic agenda, as seems likely. To read more, click here.
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