Rather idiotic overall.

A bit of drum pounding, I would opine, by the evangelicals Xians from the US who are snooping around every corner it would appear.

Not that the converts are in a great social position, I am sure they are not, but frankly places like Morocco have vastly more pressing issues than whether converts to Xianity have freedom to do so.

Priorities.

The article strikes me as rather poorly informed and researched regardless, as here

Islam is the state religion in Morocco, a country of 30 million people that counts only 5,000 Jews and 1,000 Christians, according to figures given by the two groupings.

There are certainly more than 5k of Moroccan Jews.

And while official Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches are recognized by Morocco, they are only for foreigners living in the country. Moroccan Christians have no right to pray in these churches.

This is rubbish, anyone can go into the various churches.

"At the beginning of the 1990s there were 400 of us, four years ago around 700 and today more than 1,000," he said.

Most of the converts belong to the middle classes and work in the private sector or as engineers. But these new evangelical Christians also count among their numbers craftsmen, housewives, students and young unemployed people.

Perhaps, I doubt it though.

One would expect the Xian Moroccans are largely from mixed marriages (Moroccan-European), and the occasional overseas experienced returnee.

Numbers - a vague term, rather reminds me of the breathless blithering Muslim activitists would go on about with respect to the number of supposred Muslim converts in America or UK for example.

I'd add this,

Christianity was established in North Africa in the third century AD but was supplanted by Islam in the seventh century. In the early 1990s, Christianity started to get a new foothold when foreign missionaries passed on the word to Moroccans.

is a pure lift from American evangelical agitprop.

Sad to see agitprop recycled as news.

A further thought,

Jack Wald, 55, an American and pastor of the Rabat International Church -- one of the "official" Christian churches -- who has lived in Morocco since 2000 also cites the role of technology.

It "means that a country or religion cannot isolate itself from the rest of the world. This happened in eastern Europe and is happening in China and
North Korea. The same is true with Muslim countries," he said.

"Radio, television and the Internet have opened up doors for people to hear a different message than the one the imam preaches on Fridays."

Yeah, mate, and it's the Salafi message from back East, or hip hop from France. It ain't your silly little Church.

I believe I have run into this irritating fuck I might add.

Continuing the article's regurgitating of Evangelical agitprop

Discretion is the order of the day for Morocco's Christians, with the faithful holding services in their homes, against a background of suspicion from the Islamic world.

Please, against the suspicion perhaps of their neighbours and friends, but the Islamic world couldn't give a fuck.