Dozens of young Moroccans visited churches in six Moroccan cities on Sunday, December 22, amid Christmas festivities. According to Vatican News, the objective of these visits is to «exchange Christmas greetings» there while Christians were celebrating the birth of Jesus. These visits took place in Rabat, Marrakech, Casablanca, Mohammedia, Fez and Tangier, the same platform reported. «Since the Pope’s visit, a new dialogue spirit has been launched»,
Issues related to the delimitation of the Atlantic maritime borders between Morocco and Spain have pushed Canary Islands’ pro-independence groups to consider breaking away from Spain. These demands date back to the Franco era.
The former head of Qatar state funded channel Al Jazeera Yasser Abu Hilala stirred controversy on Twitter after he accused Morocco of having explicitly «supported terrorism» in Algeria during the nineties. Abu Hilala reacted, earlier in December, to the statement of Algeria’s newly elected president Abdelmajid Tebboune, who addressed the reopening of land borders between Morocco and Algeria, urging Moroccans to apologize. «It is unimportant to
Rabbi Haim Pinto Hagadol left Agadir to study in Essaouira. In the port city he rubbed shoulders with two powerful rabbis, who knew that he would become a saint. His Hiloula is celebrated every September.
Brahim Ghali was re-elected, Tuesday, as the Secretary-General of the Polisario Front. According to Algerian press agency, (APS) Brahim Ghali received 86.10% of the votes, as declared Tuesday morning by the movement’s election committee chairperson, Brahim Mokhtar. The results of this vote were revealed after a minute's silence to honor Algeria’s chief army Gaid Salah was observed. The vote took place during the Polisario’s 15th congress, held in Tifariti, an oasis
Romanian border police near Curtici, a town in western Romania, announced, Tuesday, that they had arrested a Moroccan and an Algerian who wanted to irregularly enter Hungary on foot. In a statement published, Tuesday, on its website, the Romanian border police said that the two men were walking towards the border with Hungary. The two men were arrested and then transported to the headquarters of the police for investigation. Police said that the two men are aged 28 and 30 years old and that
Just like Algeria, the Polisario Front declared, Monday, a three-day mourning in the Tindouf camps following the death of powerful General Ahmed Gaid Salah. In a statement relayed by the Front’s press agency, the separatist movement expressed «its sincere condolences» to Algeria, its people, its government and its army, as well as to the family of the deceased. «Algeria has lost one of its greatest men, who was committed to its liberation struggle fought in the
In the absence of a Moroccan official delegation, the Justice and Charity Group and the Unity and Reform Movement attended an Islamic summit in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. The latter was marked by tensions between Riyadh and Ankara.
A new Netflix series is facing backlash for telling the story of the «Messiah» and portraying him as a «prophet» that leads 2,000 Palestinians into Israel, wrote French news agency AFP. More than 3,500 denouncing the series signed a petition launched on Change.org, indicating that it is «evil» and that it enhances «anti-Islamic propaganda». «Messiah», which will be released on January 1, tells the story of a young man in Syria. The
A Moroccan national who has been living in the Netherlands for almost fifty years will not be expelled after receiving a prison sentence. A court in Groningen, city in the northern Netherlands, ruled that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) cannot revoke his residence permit, Noordhollands Dagblad reports. The man in question arrived in the Netherlands when he was four years old. He is currently held in prison for two rapes, attempted homicide and three burglaries. After he was
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