Corruption

The harvest in your family's field looks like it will fail from lack of rain.

You have no work and only one of your two brothers has a job. His salary is modest and is the main income for your extended family of eight adults and three children. It’s a real struggle to provide food for everyone and many of your neighbors are in the same difficulty.

For months you have looked for work, even traveled to a distant city. Finally you hear of an available job

for which you are qualified. So you go to see the man responsible for hiring. He says you can have the

job but only if you give him a sum of money equal to one third of your brother's monthly pay, money you

don't have. Many Moroccans find themselves in similar situations. What would you do?

This is just one example of a type of corruption that is common to Morocco and that results in high levels

of frustration and depression for anyone, whether Christian or Muslim, who tries to live righteously. A

holdover from a feudalistic heritage that lasted into the twentieth century, those in any position of authority

tend to misuse their position to extort funds from others forced to deal

with them.

Despite growing official attempts to curb it, corruption continues to be an oppressive curse upon

Moroccan society.

"In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people." Numbers 14:19

"Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may

participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires."

2 Peter 1:4

Pray for efforts by the Moroccan government to stamp out corruption.
Pray that believers (Moroccan and foreign) will not become entangled in this evil and that God will act on their behalf to provide a righteous way forward.
Pray that ingrained feudalistic patterns of corrupt behavior might be broken.

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