Thanks to Sub-Saharan Africans, Morocco, a country where Islam is the state religion, is seeing its small Christian community revive. A diocesan synod started in May is reflecting on its new challenges.
After a visit to Marrakech, foreign tourists arrived last Friday in Essaouira where they were arrested. Suspected of proselytism, the 7 British, of Buddhist faith, were trying to recruit among the population.
Missionaries from 7 American churches have decided to return to Morocco, 10 years after being expelled for evangelical proselytism. Morocco had accused them of trying to convert the 33 children of the Village of Hope in Ain Leuh.
The president of the Île-de-France region proposes to "put an end to the foreign financing of mosques", in an interview with the Journal du dimanche (JDD) of February 23. She believes that the rule in force for political parties should be applied to places of worship.
A policewoman from Le Raincy in Seine-Saint-Denis is facing dismissal for a post hostile to Israel, and for severely criticizing French policy in the Middle East. "Palestine will live, Palestine will prevail, inshallah," she had posted.
Before Christmas, it is the "Bunga-Bunga" party affair that is making headlines in Marrakech . Indeed, the police services of the ochre city arrested on Wednesday, 9 people, including four foreign nationals, who were steeped in debauchery and pimping.
The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) has expressed its concern and consternation at the virulence of the debates on the veil or statements tending to make people believe that all Muslims are radicals.
In a quest for the blessing of the local authorities, Moroccans of Christian faith choose marriage according to the Muslim ritual. Several Christian marriages have been denied to converted Moroccans, due to the lack of an adapted penal code.
Considering themselves persecuted by the Moroccan authorities, Moroccan Christians have just addressed their grievances to Pope Francis on the occasion of the visit he is to make to the kingdom on March 30 and 31.
A Moroccan jurisprudence has just been born: the distribution of Bibles and Christian religious works does not shake Muslim faith. A man who handed over several biblical works to another person has just been acquitted.
A Lebanese national suspected of proselytizing near schools was arrested this week in Essaouira.