{"id":16534,"date":"2022-06-23T05:51:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/?p=16534"},"modified":"2022-06-23T05:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:51:01","slug":"192-million-allocated-improve-socio-economic-situation-imams-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/16534\/192-million-allocated-improve-socio-economic-situation-imams-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"$192 Million Allocated to Improve Socio-Economic Situation of Imams in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\">A support program dedicated to improving the socio-economic situation of imams across Morocco is going to be implemented in the country.<\/div>\n<div class=\"body ah_body\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to questions from MPs on Tuesday, Morocco\u2019s Minister of Islamic Affairs Ahmed Toufiq said that the ministry has allocated a budget estimated at MAD 1.93 billion ($192 million) to improve imams\u2019 situations.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the budget is divided between monthly incentives, health coverage, and training.<\/p>\n<p>As explained by Toufiq, the new budget gradually increases the monthly incentives for imams, with the total amount of the increase reaching MAD 1,200 ($120) this year.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum monthly incentives increased between MAD 2,300 ($228.85) and MAD 2,600 ($258.70) for imams and between MAD 2,500 ($248.75) and MAD 3,700 ($368.15) for 78% of religious persons who practice other tasks in addition to serving as imams.<\/p>\n<p>Toufiq noted that imams have possessed access to a health coverage system since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess to health coverage has been generalized in 2014 to all religious personnel, including preachers and mosque inspectors,\u201d the minister reported.<\/p>\n<p>Toufiq remarked that the health coverage system benefits from an annual budget estimated at MAD 229.8 million ($22.86 million).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mosques rehabilitation<\/p>\n<p>Toufiq also addressed questions concerning mosques, responding that the Islamic ministry allocated \u201cimportant\u201d financial funds estimated at MAD 300 million annually to improve mosques\u2019 governance and mosque rehabilitation programs.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2011, Morocco rehabilitated 1,382 mosques out of 3,665 for a budget of nearly MAD 2.4 billion ($238.8 million), Toufiq noted.<\/p>\n<p>Despite such efforts, the minister pointed to the 1,225 mosques that require rehabilitation for a budget estimated at MAD 2 billion ($199 million).<\/p>\n<p>The number of mosques that close annually ranges between 200 and 250 mosques.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco is home to over 50,000 mosques.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/iqna.ir\/en\/news\/3479425\/$192-million-allocated-to-improve-socio-economic-situation-of-imams-in-morocco\">iqna<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A support program dedicated to improving the socio-economic situation of imams across Morocco is going to be implemented in the country. &nbsp; &nbsp; In response to questions from MPs on Tuesday, Morocco\u2019s Minister of Islamic Affairs Ahmed Toufiq said that the ministry has allocated a budget estimated at MAD 1.93 billion ($192 million) to improve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20537],"tags":[13763,8154,14551,7573,9546],"class_list":["post-16534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamic-teachings","tag-ahl-al-bayt-a-s","tag-allah","tag-ethics","tag-imam-ali","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}