Women

Mini-skirted career women stroll side by side with friends wearing traditional hooded jellabas. Black-veiled fundamentalist university students sit and study with the jeans and T-shirt set, mothers swathed head to foot in cloth walk hand in hand with little girls dressed in the latest designer clothing. Women from traditional families are rarely seen in public while others are out jogging on the beach or shopping in supermarkets.

Moroccan women’s lifestyles and roles vary greatly depending on where they live. In rural areas families tend to be poorer. Life there is labor intensive and women do a large share of the work. Girls learn cooking, cleaning and homemaking at an early age. A six or seven-year-old girl will carry a year-old sibling on her back. If she remains in her village, her parents may force her in her mid-teens to marry a man of their choosing. An estimated 96% of rural women are illiterate.

Moroccan women love events. They enjoy singing and dancing at celebrations that mark births, circumcisions, and marriages. They like visiting each other in the afternoon after a morning of housework.

They tend to be superstitious and many fear the power of evil spirits, magic and sorcery. They will say certain phrases or perform various rituals in order to protect themselves and their families.

Women often are the glue that holds a family together. They need to know the love of God transforming their lives.

"Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to

much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands

and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their

husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God." Titus 2:3-5

Pray God's perfect love will cast out their fear and women will find their security in Him.
Pray for evangelists to arise among Moroccan women.
Pray for godly women of all ages to be drawn into the Moroccan church.

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