Spiritual Fitness and Community Welfare Authors Latifa Belfakir Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah University, Morocco DOI: https://doi.org/10.47505/IJRSS.2020.9138 Keywords: Resilience, Spirituality, Spiritual Fitness, COVID-19 pandemic, Spiritual coping. Abstract Spiritual fitness has become a hot subject since the outbreak of COVID-10. The World Health Organization, in 1948, defined health as “ not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. … it is a complete state of physical, mental and social well being.” Later on the spiritual dimension was added ensuring that health stems from an amalgam of bodily, mental, social wellbeing in addition to spiritual fitness. The belief that spirituality may help people attain meaning through experiencing humanity in all aspects of life has in the last decade moved to academia and excited many researchers. 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