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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 ...
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]
In 2003, a 25th Anniversary deluxe version of the book was released, repackaged as I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God. The book is a classic in Christian literature and Muslim Evangelism. [25] [26] As of 2012, the book is available in hardcover, paperback, audio, CD, and digital e-book format
Setsuzo Kotsuji – Born Shinto; converted to Presbyterian Christianity and then Judaism. [15] Debi Mazar – Originally Catholic; Actress who reportedly converted to Buddhism, Judaism, and briefly the Jehovah's Witnesses. [16] Ibrahim Njoya – Bamum people religion; back and forth conversions from Islam to Christianity. [17] Also created his ...
A. George Baker – American Protestant clergyman and medical doctor who converted to Islam. [15] French nobleman – Alexandre de Bonneval as "Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa" Abdullah Beg of Kartli – Georgian convert to Islam; served as a viceroy of Kartli for the Iranian Shah, Nadir in 1737; [16] claimant to the kingship of Kartli
Emir Kusturica – filmmaker, actor, and musician; although of Muslim ancestry, his father was atheist; [73] took the name "Nemanja" on conversion in 2005 [74]; Seraphim Rose – Hieromonk and religious writer; in early adulthood he considered non-theist ideas of God and the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche that God is dead; became Russian Orthodox in 1962 [75] [76]
The Shihab family – prominent Lebanese noble family who originally belonged to Sunni Islam, and converted to Christianity at the end of the 18th century; Mary Short (1802–1849), British-born Indian queen consort of Awadh, converted to Islam upon marriage, and converted to Catholicism when widowed.