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Missionaries in Morocco are Deported
Special to the NNPA from GIN
(GIN) – Despite a reputation for religious tolerance, Morocco moved quickly on Sunday to expel five missionaries on charges of attempting to covert local Muslims to Christianity.
It is against the law to try to convert Muslims in that North African country. An interior ministry spokesman said the five had been caught ''red-handed'' at a Bible study class attended by 23 tourists, expatriates and Moroccans. The missionary women were put on a ferry and sent to Spain - the home country of four of the five. The other is German.
But according to a source, everyone in attendance was a Christian and they had merely gathered for a Bible study, which falls within Morocco’s constitutional right of freedom to express one’s faith.
The action against the missionaries may be an attempt to downplay the arrest of dozens of Shia Muslims for allegedly attempting to convert Sunni Muslims who make up 90 percent of the country. Morocco severed ties with Iran earlier this month on suspicion that the latter was supporting Shiite Islamic missionary activity.
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