It isn’t easy to define ‘religious freedom’ in Morocco.
The Moroccan Constitution ‘guarantees the free exercise of worship for all’. Foreign Christian residents can attend officially recognised churches, and Morocco’s 3,000 to 4,000 Jews generally go about their lives freely.
However, the law does not allow Morocco’s estimated 4,000 to 8,000 local Christians to attend the approved churches. And attempts ‘to undermine the faith of a Muslim or to convert him to another religion’ can be punished by three months to six years in prison.
