{"id":14344,"date":"2025-12-16T20:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14344"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:47:01","slug":"morocco-christmas-gifts-open-doors-for-the-gospel-in-mountain-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14344","title":{"rendered":"Morocco: Christmas Gifts Open Doors for the Gospel in Mountain Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Mission Network News, December 12, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mountains of Morocco, children recently received warm clothing from a Christian ministry leader. But the real gift wasn\u2019t something they could wear\u2014it was the first glimmer of a story they had never heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the [ministry leader] shared the Christmas message of Jesus with kids and their families, they asked him to come back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey want to know more about this Jesus,\u201d [said Patrick Anthony of FMI]. \u201cThe children asked him, \u2018Well, who is this Messiah? Is he Santa Claus?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/christmas-gifts-open-gospel-doors-in-moroccos-mountain-villages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story<\/a> with commentary and prayer points.<br><br>See also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalchristianrelief.org\/stories\/a-persecuted-christian-discovers-the-joy-of-christmas-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Persecuted Christian Discovers the Joy of Christmas in India<\/a> (Global Christian Relief).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, December 12, 2025 In the mountains of Morocco, children recently received warm clothing from a Christian ministry leader. But the real gift wasn\u2019t something they could wear\u2014it was the first glimmer of a story they had never heard. When the [ministry leader] shared the Christmas message of Jesus with kids and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14344\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Morocco: Christmas Gifts Open Doors for the Gospel in Mountain Villages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14345,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14344\/revisions\/14345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}