ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the Comite d’Entraide Internationale (CEI) in terms of its relationship with the state, where it continually has to assert its legitimacy against the backdrop of ambivalent laws on religious freedom and the ambiguity of the Christian presence in Morocco. It focuses on the CEI's relationship with its donors and its capacity to mobilise transnational religious networks of funding. The chapter contends that it is the CEI's relationships with outside others that clearly reveal sanctification and secularisation strategies; and that the existence of an organisation such as the CEI acting in the public sphere can put into question many taken-for-granted binaries between religion and politics, and religion and the secular. It discusses the grouping is particularly represented by the migration platform. The chapter illustrates how the CEI is in an inherent double bind in its relation to the state.
