Religion: Meeting in Morocco

Illiteracy and prejudice still maintain a fearsome gulf between Moslem Morocco (see FOREIGN NEWS) and the Christian West. But miles south of the ancient Moslem holy city of Fez, high in the oak-thicketed Atlas Mountains, a band of black-robed Roman Catholic monks last week went quietly about their accustomed work: building a retreat where Moroccans and Europeans can meet, trade social and political theories, and learn each other's foreign ways. Their oasis of understanding is Morocco's only Christian monastery, the Benedictine Priory of Christ le Roi at Tioumliline.

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