Moroccan Woman’s Journey from Islam to Christianity Sparks Controversy

A Moroccan of Muslim faith since her childhood, Meryam confided that she "never found true happiness in Islam". It all started from there. "I fled my home and went abroad illegally. I was in several countries trying to rebuild my life, studying," she recounts.

The trigger came the day she saw a simple chapel. "I left home with nothing, I was walking and I saw a chapel. I felt something was calling me and I went in," she recalls.

"Peace. I felt that my tears had dried, it was something I had never felt before. Inexplicable. I felt it at that moment and I still feel it today. And that’s what radically changed my life. Then, when I left the chapel, I felt happy, I felt that I was already Christian, I had understood it, it was a miracle of God," she confides.

Subsequently, the young Moroccan will go through all the steps of her reconversion. Finally, she became a Catholic Christian and attends mass with her husband.

Even though Meryam is swimming in happiness with her new life, she would have wished to be as courageous and steadfast in the faith as the Christians of Morocco. "I have friends who have been fired from their jobs for declaring themselves Christians and who evangelize on the streets because their faith is greater than fear. Many have been imprisoned for becoming Christians and continue to evangelize in prisons. Moroccan Christians receive no help, they have only their faith and their courage," she says.