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Morocco’s Christian converts emerge from the shadows AFP | Published — Sunday 30 April 2017 MOROCCO: Moroccans who secretly converted to Christianity are demanding the right to practice their faith openly in a country where Islam is the state religion and “apostasy” is condemned.At an apartment in a working-class part of the southern town of Agadir, Mustapha listened to hymns emanating from a hi-fi under a silver crucifix hung on the wall.The 46-year-old civil servant, son of an expert on Islamic law from nearby Taroudant, was once an active member of the banned but tolerated Islamist Charity and Justice movement.He said he converted in 1994 to “fill a spiritual void.”“I was tired of the contradictions in Islam,” said Mustapha.“I became interested in Christianity through a long correspondence with a religious center in Spain in the late 1980s.”Continued: http://www.arabnews.com/node/1092471/middle-east
