Morocco abolishes death penalty for apostasy from Islam

MOROCCO Morocco’s High Religious Committee decreed earlier this year that individuals who leave Islam should not face the death penalty for apostasy. This astounding ruling from a body charged with issuing fatwas (an authoritative religious or juridical ruling), reverses the classical sharia legislation that has stood since medieval times. It is all the more significant

Unreached of the Day: Berber, Tekna in Morocco

  Berber, Tekna in Morocco The name Berber comes from an Arabic name for the aboriginal people west and south of Egypt. Berber is a generic name given to numerous ethnic groups who share similar cultural, political and economical practices. The arabization of the Berber people happened in three stages, the third stage taking place

Some good news (Morocco)

    Give thanks that the conviction of a Moroccan convert from Islam to Christianity for evangelising and “shaking the faith of a Muslim” was overturned on appeal on 6 February. Mohamed El Baladi had been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison and a fine in September 2013. He was arrested, tried and condemned within a

Pray for Christian Woman Attacked in Front of School

Mar. 06, 2014 | Morocco The wife of a Christian worker was violently attacked on Feb. 13 by three Muslim women who had discovered that she was a believer. One of the attackers has a daughter who attends the same school as the victim’s daughter, and the Muslim women attacked the Christian woman in front

Moroccan injustice.

Pray for the release of Jamaa Ait Bakrim In December of 2005 a Christian man in Morocco by the name of Jamaa Ait Bakrim was arrested for burning down two old, unused wooden posts outside of his home. Almost eight years later, he is still sitting behind bars in the country’s largest prison and still