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Converts to Christianity from Islam Total population Between 8.4 million (2014 study) - 10.2 million (2015 study) According to the study 6 million of those converts came from Indonesia; however, the 6 million figure also includes descendants of those converts. Significant numbers of Muslims convert to Christianity in: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, [6] [7] Australia, Austria, [8] Azerbaijan ...
According to 2015 Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background": A Global Census study published by Baylor University institute for studies of religion, it estimates that 10.2 million Muslims converted to Christianity. [12] Due primarily to conversion, Christianity has grown in South Korea from 2.0% in 1945 [13] to 29.3% in 2010. [14]
Constantine the African was a physician who converted to Christian-Catholicism from Sunni Islam. Moussa Dadis Camara – ex-officer of the Guinean army who served as the President of the Republic of Guinea; Roman Catholic Christian convert from Islam; Chehab family – prominent Lebanese noble family; having converted from Sunni Islam, the ...
Former Muslims or ex-Muslims are people who were Muslims, but subsequently left Islam. Although their numbers have increased, ex-Muslims still face ostracism or retaliation from their families and communities due to beliefs about apostasy in Islam. [1] In 23 countries apostasy is a punishable crime and in 13 of those it carries the death ...
Nabeel Asif Qureshi (Urdu: نبیل قریشی; April 13, 1983 – September 16, 2017) was a Pakistani-American evangelical Christian apologist.Raised by a devout Ahmadi family, Qureshi converted to Christianity from Ahmadiyya as a university student following several years of debate with a Christian friend.
His stories have also been disputed by the magazine Mother Jones, [3] Christianity Today [4] and The Daily Beast. [5] He has been compared to other alleged ex-Muslim terrorist converts to Christianity such as Walid Shoebat, Zachariah Anani, Ergun Caner and Emir Caner, whose stories have also been disputed. [1]
Rachid Hammami, best known as Brother Rachid (born 1971, Morocco) [2] is a Moroccan former Muslim and convert to Christianity whose father is an Imam. He is a Christian apologist and critic of Islam, and hosts a weekly live call-in show on Al Hayat TV where he compares Islam and Christianity.
He converted to Coptic Orthodox Christianity from Islam in 1998 and took the name Beshoy (Coptic: Ⲡⲓϣⲱⲓ) after a Coptic monk. [1] [2] [3] His wife, Um Hashim Kamel, also converted several years ago, [when?] taking the name Christine (Coptic: ⲭⲣⲩⲥⲧⲓⲛⲁ). They both have a daughter, Miriam who was born while in hiding.