The parliament of the Maldives has been debating a bill to ban non-Muslim places of worship and any public practice of non-Muslim faiths. Non-Muslim foreigners would be allowed to worship in private, but there is no provision for non-Muslim Maldivians, as the 2008 constitution forbids them from becoming citizens of the Maldives. Some MPs thought the bill was too strong, and some thought it was too weak, but none thought that non-Muslim places of worship should be allowed. The bill is now being considered by a committee. Pray that it will not be passed into law. Pray for the many thousands of Christian migrant workers who are unable to worship at all in the Maldives since there is no privacy in their accommodation. Pray also for the small number of Maldivian Christians, whose status has become alarmingly unclear since the 2008 constitution was passed; have they lost their citizenship in their own country?

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