Di Indonesia istilahnya Kristenisasi.. Bukan hanya di Indonesia orang Islam itu takut dengan kristenisasi..
Tapi orang Islam boleh dakwah kemana-mana. ---- Published on Radio Netherlands Worldwide (http://www.rnw.nl) Morocco expels Dutch evangelists By Greta Riemersma Created 11 March 2010 10:32 Morocco expels Dutch evangelists The Moroccan authorities have expelled 16 foreign workers, accusing them of being Christian evangelists. The 16 staff from the Village de l'Espérance [1] (Village of Hope) orphanage in the village of Aïn Leuh included six Dutch nationals who have already flown back to the Netherlands. "Everyone here says it's all their own fault," was the comment from one inhabitants of Aïn Leuh, located in Morocco's Atlas mountains, not far from the city of Fez. He says the foreign workers at the orphanage had basically taken advantage of local poverty to spread the Christian message. Other staff at the orphanage deny this. The Village de l'Espérance website states that the Moroccan authorities had known about the personnel were Christians for ten years. However, the 33 children living at the orphanage have all attended an Islamic school, according to the home's Dutch head, Herman Boonstra. Christian reading matter In the past 12 months a number of other foreign Christians have been thrown out of Morocco too: a group of seven Spaniards and one German, then two Africans, one person from Guatemala and two Swiss. Recently a French busdriver was detained. He had been entering the country once a week, on Wednesdays, in his bus. Everywhere he stopped, he reportedly left behind Christian reading material and DVDs. French Protestant preacher Jean-Luc Blanc, who lives in Casablanca, says the crackdown on evangelical Christians has been getting tougher in Morocco. He's been working in the country for nine years, but never before experienced anything similar to what happened last Sunday when police came into the Protestant church in Marrakesh and arrested two Africans. They had allegedly been in contact with a Moroccan who has converted to Christianity. Evangelisation The two were later released after being questioned, but Mr Blanc thinks what has happened is astonishing: "Just imagine if police in Europe were to go into a mosque. All the media and human rights organisations would be up in arms." He says it's a worrying development: "We're not involved in any kind of evangelism, but we can't stop anyone from coming into our church." Some 25,000 foreign Christians live in Morocco, and compared with countries like Syria and Iraq they enjoy a great deal of freedom. They may hold their own religious ceremonies in their own church buildings. But they are not allowed to do evangelical work, for Muslims may not be converted to any other faith. Anyone who does such a thing risks going to jail for a maximum of three years. But prison sentences aren't imposed very often, because the authorities usually turn to expulsion instead. Mormons and Baptists Jean-Luc Blanc says the problem lies in the fact that the Moroccans make no distinction between the different Christian sects and churches. Those who actively spread the Christian message are most often fundamentalist Christians from the United States, such as Mormons or Baptists. Moroccan newspaper MarocHebdo says the country's Ministry of Islamic Affairs issued a warning back in 2008, saying things were getting out of hand in terms of the Christian message being spread within Morocco. One organisation, Arab World Ministries, which does evangelical work amongst Muslims in the region, expressed its satisfaction with developments in Morocco, where the number of 'home churches' had reportedly reached 52. No Christian names That's the way most Moroccan Christians hold services, at each other's homes. But it's not talked about in public. The authorities keep a close eye on Moroccan Christians. The police disrupt funerals in Christian cemeteries; the children of Moroccan followers of Jesus Christ are not allowed to have Christian names. The expelled members of staff from the Aïn Leuh orphanage say they were thrown out of Morocco as a result of the new policy implemented by the recently appointed minister of justice, although the monitoring of Christians in general has been going on for much longer. Source URL: http://www.rnw.nl/article/morocco-expels-dutch-evangelists Links: [1] http://www.schohariecounty-ny.gov/CountyWebSite/villesp/index.jsp Images: [i1] Morocco expels Dutch evangelists -- http://www.rnw.nl/data/files/images/lead/celebration3_1.jpg [i2] http://www.rnw.nl/ -- Jusfiq Hadjar gelar Sutan Maradjo Lelo ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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