MOROCCO .- (AGENCIALAVOZ.ORG) Interior's decision affects a Franciscan evangelists and forced to close the Village of Hope orphanage that cared for 33 niñosLas Moroccan authorities have expelled from the territory a national total of 26 Christians accused of "proselytizing."
The Interior Ministry's decision affects mainly to a group of Anglo-Saxon Protestants, but also among those expelled a Franciscan priest.
With this decision, this past weekend, Morocco broke the record of -27 expulsion of Christians were arrested and 26 received the deportation order, "to coincide precisely with the first summit meeting in history between the European Union (EU ) and the North African country that was taking place in Granada.
Among those expelled were also a couple of Venezuela, a Korean pastor accredited to attend an African community and arrested during Sunday worship in the Protestant church in Marrakech.
"Shaking faith of Muslims "
According to a statement issued by agency Maghreb Arabe Presse," foreign citizens of different nationalities "expelled are" guilty of acts contrary to existing laws. "
Among the material investigated by the attorney general's order Moroccan had "hundreds of brochures and CD-ROM of proselytism," which "have been seized."
This action-ends the note "falls within the framework of the struggle waged against attempts to spread the evangelical creed, designed to shake the faith of Muslims"
The orphanage closed decision of the Moroccan Interior Ministry forces in practice to close the Village of Hope orphanage Leuhan Ain, in the Atlas Mountains, where there were 33 children served by 16 evangelicals, all of them expelled. The center was ten years running.
Those responsible for the orphanage were also accused of, "under the guise of charity, also engage in proselytizing young children," says the note odicial.
"has been working and out of the blue, without any dialogue, that is the cerrojazo the orphanage," lamented the Rev. Jean-Louis Blanc, who heads the Protestant Church in Morocco allowed to foreign address of that confession.
"In Marrakech they entered the temple to arrest something I had never done and that I find reprehensible," he notes.
"Thirty-three children were once again abandoned because of the actions of the Moroccan State," adds on the web at the orphanage her guardian, Chris Broadbent before leaving the country.
"These 33 children have never met other caregivers / parents," she continues. One of them asked Tina, a caregiver, who took leave of him: "Why can not real parents?"
French NGO Portes Ouvertes, which seeks to support Christian community where there are minority, Tuesday expressed "concern at the increase, since a few months, actions against Christians in the Kingdom of Morocco."
were five missionary
Before be recalled that in March 2009 and were expelled from Morocco five evangelical missionaries, including four English and one German, also accused of practicing "proselytism."
The judicial police arrested in Casablanca for "a meeting with Moroccan proselytism", which seized "evangelical propaganda material" books, videos and objects of worship, then the statement said.
Meanwhile, the evangelical group said it was a "meeting of communion" in an enclosure in which only women were Christian and no Muslim, so the accusation was false proselytism.
With this decision, this past weekend, Morocco broke the record of -27 expulsion of Christians were arrested and 26 received the deportation order, "to coincide precisely with the first summit meeting in history between the European Union (EU ) and the North African country that was taking place in Granada.
Among those expelled were also a couple of Venezuela, a Korean pastor accredited to attend an African community and arrested during Sunday worship in the Protestant church in Marrakech.
"Shaking faith of Muslims "
According to a statement issued by agency Maghreb Arabe Presse," foreign citizens of different nationalities "expelled are" guilty of acts contrary to existing laws. "
Among the material investigated by the attorney general's order Moroccan had "hundreds of brochures and CD-ROM of proselytism," which "have been seized."
This action-ends the note "falls within the framework of the struggle waged against attempts to spread the evangelical creed, designed to shake the faith of Muslims"
The orphanage closed decision of the Moroccan Interior Ministry forces in practice to close the Village of Hope orphanage Leuhan Ain, in the Atlas Mountains, where there were 33 children served by 16 evangelicals, all of them expelled. The center was ten years running.
Those responsible for the orphanage were also accused of, "under the guise of charity, also engage in proselytizing young children," says the note odicial.
"has been working and out of the blue, without any dialogue, that is the cerrojazo the orphanage," lamented the Rev. Jean-Louis Blanc, who heads the Protestant Church in Morocco allowed to foreign address of that confession.
"In Marrakech they entered the temple to arrest something I had never done and that I find reprehensible," he notes.
"Thirty-three children were once again abandoned because of the actions of the Moroccan State," adds on the web at the orphanage her guardian, Chris Broadbent before leaving the country.
"These 33 children have never met other caregivers / parents," she continues. One of them asked Tina, a caregiver, who took leave of him: "Why can not real parents?"
French NGO Portes Ouvertes, which seeks to support Christian community where there are minority, Tuesday expressed "concern at the increase, since a few months, actions against Christians in the Kingdom of Morocco."
were five missionary
Before be recalled that in March 2009 and were expelled from Morocco five evangelical missionaries, including four English and one German, also accused of practicing "proselytism."
The judicial police arrested in Casablanca for "a meeting with Moroccan proselytism", which seized "evangelical propaganda material" books, videos and objects of worship, then the statement said.
Meanwhile, the evangelical group said it was a "meeting of communion" in an enclosure in which only women were Christian and no Muslim, so the accusation was false proselytism.
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