The 2003 Casablanca terrorist attacks served as a catalyst for Morocco's sweeping religious reforms, aimed at centralizing authority and promoting a moderate Islamic discourse, according to a new ...

When governing body offficials the Africa Cup of Nations title to Morocco, overturning Senegal’s victory two months after the chaotic final, football fans were stunned. The impact of the decision ...

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(RNS) — Dozens of rabbis affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement gathered in Casablanca, Morocco, last week for a conference aimed at Chabad leaders serving small Jewish communities ...

Illiteracy and prejudice still maintain a fearsome gulf between Moslem Morocco (see FOREIGN NEWS) and the Christian West. But miles south of the ancient Moslem holy city of Fez, high in the ...

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco has expelled foreign Christians who tried to convert Muslims because, as a moderate Islamic state, it wants to foster "order and calm" and avoid a clash between faiths, its ...

MARRAKESH, Morocco — After the Prophet Muhammad established the first Muslim state, he wrote the Charter of Medina to make sure his subjects lived in harmony, whether they were Muslims, Jews or people ...

(RNS) — The Morocco football team has exhibited a joyous expression of Muslimness in front of a world audience on a global sporting stage. (RNS) — To say the Muslim “ummah” (global community) has been ...