Moroccan Priest Honored with Aachen Peace Prize for Migrant Aid Work

The priest, who is now the parish priest of Oujda and vicar general of Rabat, arrived in Morocco in 2016. "If you want to understand the migration issues and the question of Islam, you have to go to the field". It is therefore this determination of the Breton priest to serve the most disadvantaged that has just been saluted by this distinction, reports Ouest France.

"In Oujda, right on the Algerian border, he accompanies people on the move through his commitment. This is where the vast majority of refugees enter the country and where the migration trade has been established," recalls the Aachen Prize Foundation.

Since 1988, the Aachen Peace Prize has annually honored people and groups who often work from disadvantaged positions for peace, the same source specifies.