Morocco clamps down on alleged missionaries

John Thorne, Foreign Correspondent
April 7. 2010

AIN LEUH, MOROCCO- On the hill the police cars were assembled, the Christians were packing their suitcases and the children were screaming. In a field below, a Muslim farmer called Hassan Kasim was blinking through tears at the scene.

“The government says they were missionaries,” he said, recalling the day last month when Moroccan authorities expelled Christian foster families from the Village of Hope, a children’s home next to his farm. “Maybe they were, maybe they weren’t. But I know they were my friends.” the rest

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