Morocco
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Official name: Kingdom of Morocco |
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[edit] Geography
[edit] Location
- Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. Morocco has international borders with Algeria to the east, Spain to the north. To the south, lies the Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony that was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Morocco claims that the Western Sahara is part of its territory and refers to that as its Southern Provinces. Morocco is comparable in size to Iraq.
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[edit] Demographics
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[edit] Government
[edit] Religion
- Sunni Islam is the state religion and the government is committed to preserving Islam as the religion of all Moroccons, 99.8% of whom are Muslims. Christians are only .1% of the population. Moroccons have a pride in their country as a center for Islamic learning and heritage. Less than 5% of the population have ever met a Christian or heard the Gospel.
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[edit] Challenges for Christians:
- Any Muslims converting to Christianity faces persecution. There are some Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches, which are recognized by Morocco, but they are only for foreigners living in the country. Moroccan Christians have no right to pray in these churches. But many of the converts are baptized secretly in Morocco’s churches. Thousands of people are reportedly converting into Christianity from Islam in Morocco. Earlier this year, a Moroccan court in Agadir jailed German tourist Sadek Noshi Yassa, 64, for six months for attempting to convert Muslims in November 2006. Yassa, who is of Egyptian origin, was arrested for distributing books and CDs about the Christian faith to young Muslim Moroccans in the street. A court also fined him the equivalent of $60.
- The Moroccan Church is growing — but at great cost and many believers are isolated from regular fellowship.
- Pray for:
- Deep trust and fellowship to be established between believers so that they can meet together despite the risks and that a strong, indigenous, economically self-sufficient, Moroccan Church might develop.
- Grace, fortitude and deliverance from fear when pressured or harassed by family, police and the authorities. Over the years some believers have been questioned, intimidated, confined to psychiatric wards, temporarily detained and occasionally imprisoned by the police who maintain an active surveillance of anything Christian. The most acute persecution still comes from the families of believers.
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