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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 ...
Francis Bok – Sudanese-American activist, convert to Islam from Christianity; but later returned to his Christian faith Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921–1996), dictator of the Central African Republic and its successor state, the Central African Empire in what he became and declared Emperor (Bokassa was born Catholic Christian, converted himself ...
Between 540 and 542 he converted to Christianity. [55] Razhden the Protomartyr — was a 5th-century Persian nobleman in the service of the Georgian king Vakhtang I of Iberia and a convert to Christianity who was executed by the Sassanid military in Iberia. [56] Sagdukht — was a 5th-century queen consort of Iberia. [57]
Mark Huda Junayed Fino – Bangladeshi raised as a Muslim but converted to Protestantism in 2010. Mary Fillis [268] Mathieu Kérékou – President of Benin (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity). [269] Matthew Ashimolowo – Nigerian-born British pastor and evangelist. [270] Mehdi Dibaj – Iranian pastor and Christian activist. [271]
A friendship with a Catholic priest later helped lead to Hank and his wife's conversion in 1959. He was known to frequently read Thomas à Kempis' 15th-century book The Imitation of Christ, which he kept in his locker. [1] [2] Greg Abbott: 48th Governor of Texas [3] Creighton Abrams: U.S. Army General, converted while commanding US forces in ...
Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle (15 September 1666 – 13 November 1726) was the repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain.The union with George, her first cousin, was a marriage of state, arranged by her father George William, her father-in-law the Elector of Hanover, and her mother-in-law, Electress Sophia of Hanover, first cousin of King Charles II of England.
As George's wife, she was also Electress of Hanover until becoming Queen of Hanover on 12 October 1814. Charlotte was Britain's longest-serving queen consort, serving for 57 years and 70 days. Charlotte was born into the ruling family of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a duchy in northern Germany. In 1760, the young and unmarried George III inherited the ...
Madragana as ancestress of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of king George III of Great Britain. There is some controversy regarding her ethnicity. Duarte Nunes de Leão, a Portuguese royal chronicler of the 16th century, said that Madragana was a Moor (Arab-Berber). [5] That was disputed in the 18th century by António Caetano de Sousa. [6]