EWTN Documentary Promotes Syncretism in Algeria Under Guise of Christian Witness
EWTN News released a documentary titled “Christianity in Algeria: Walking a Fine Line” (February 10, 2026), presenting what it describes as the “quiet yet resilient witness” of Christians in a Muslim-majority nation. The film highlights interfaith dialogue, downplays evangelization, and features modernist clergy who reject the Church’s missionary mandate.
Denial of Christ’s Universal Kingship
The documentary promotes the heresy that Muslims and Christians “worship the same God,” with Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco declaring: “We worship the same God and can be brothers and sisters.” This directly contradicts Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas: “He who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (On the Roman Pontiff 2:30). The film’s emphasis on shared worship spaces – including a mosque inside a convent – constitutes blasphemous religious indifferentism condemned by Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 16).
Betrayal of the Missionary Mandate
Bishop Michel Guillaud states:
“We are here to support Christian believers and to build bridges of fraternity between Muslims and Christians… [not] to convert others.”
This rejects Christ’s command: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19). The documentary celebrates the conversion of Oran’s Cathedral of the Sacred Heart into a library – a surrender emblematic of conciliarism’s spiritual bankruptcy.
Omission of Islam’s Heretical Nature
While acknowledging Algeria’s 98% Muslim population, the film never identifies Islam as a false religion. This violates Pope Benedict XIV’s Allatae Sunt (1755), which forbids any suggestion that Muslims “worship God in any acceptable way.” The documentary’s portrayal of imams as dialogue partners ignores the Church’s perennial teaching that “outside the Church there is no salvation” (Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam).
Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Faith
The film reduces Christian witness to social work, showing nuns caring for Muslim elderly while hiding the necessity of baptism for salvation. This aligns with Modernist errors condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). The documentary’s focus on the “Black Decade” violence serves to promote a naturalistic peace-at-all-costs mentality over the regnum Christi.
False Obedience to Anti-Christian Laws
The documentary normalizes Algeria’s prohibition against proselytism, with clergy pledging not to evangelize Muslims. This betrays the martyrs of Hippo, who died proclaiming Christ to Vandals. As Pope Gregory XVI declared in Mirari Vos: “It is absurd to imagine that the Church can shackle the freedom to manifest the truth.” The film’s solitary convert interview implicitly endorses hiding one’s faith to avoid persecution.
Conclusion: Conciliar Apostasy in Action
This documentary exemplifies the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Catholic integralism. By treating Islam as an equal and concealing the necessity of conversion, EWTN propagates the very errors condemned in Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition 77). True Catholics must reject this false irenicism and pray for the restoration of Christ’s Social Kingship over Algeria and all nations.
Source:
New EWTN documentary explores Christianity in Algeria (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.02.2026