{"id":3905,"date":"2013-09-18T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:04:15","slug":"morocco-christian-jailed-for-shaking-the-faith-of-a-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"MOROCCO: Christian Jailed for &#8220;Shaking the Faith of a Muslim&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Worthy News<\/a>, September 12, 2013<\/p>\n<p>A Moroccan Christian has been fined and jailed for &#8220;shaking the faith of a Muslim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spreading Christianity is prohibited under Article 220 of the Moroccan Penal Code; the maximum sentence for this offense is three to six months&#8217; imprisonment, but in a September hearing, Mohamed el Baldi was convicted and sentenced to two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>Baldi was arrested after his house was raided on August 28 and all his religious belongings were confiscated, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwatchmonitor.org\/2013\/09\/2693395\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">according to World Watch Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Baldi, who converted to Christianity almost seven years ago, confessed that he attended Christian meetings in the towns of Meknes and Rabat.<\/p>\n<p>During his hearing, Baldi&#8217;s mother was said to have asked Allah to exact revenge on whoever tampered with her son&#8217;s mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\/12584-moroccan-christian-jailed-for-shaking-the-faith-of-a-muslim\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Worthy News, September 12, 2013 A Moroccan Christian has been fined and jailed for &#8220;shaking the faith of a Muslim.&#8221; Spreading Christianity is prohibited under Article 220 of the Moroccan Penal Code; the maximum sentence for this offense is three to six months&#8217; imprisonment, but in a September hearing, Mohamed el Baldi was convicted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MOROCCO: Christian Jailed for &#8220;Shaking the Faith of a Muslim&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","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=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}