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Kösem Sultan – born Anastasia, the daughter of an Orthodox priest, and later enslaved by Ottomans and sent to Istanbul, where she became one of the most powerful and influential women in the Ottoman Empire [150] [151] Handan Sultan – mother of Ottoman sultan Ahmed I [152] Shaun King – American writer and Black Lives Matter activist
Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley – convert to Islam and author or translator of many books on Islam. Carla Amina Baghajati — She has been described as one of the best-known faces of Islam in Austria. Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey — Born Yale Jean Singer to an Orthodox Jewish family, he converted to Islam and took on the name Rafi Sharif in the late 1950s.
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 ...
A godly Orthodox man and a godly Orthodox woman will live similar spiritual lives. In a mirror dimly. Fidelity to Christ and the tradition of the church matters not only personally and pastorally ...
Olga (Arrsamquq) Michael (Russian: Ольга Аррсамкук Майкл; February 3, 1916 – November 8, 1979), known as Saint Olga (Arrsamquq) of Alaska, Saint Olga of Kwethluk, or Matushka Olga, was an Eastern Orthodox matushka from Kwethluk village, on the Kuskokwim River in Alaska.
1983-1999 served as priest in Russian Orthodox Church. 1990-1993 served as Member of Russia's Parliament. Polosin is an Islamic scholar and an expert on interfaith dialogue and Muslim-Christian relations who is currently Director of Moscow-based Al Wasatiya Center for interfaith dialogue.
Mohammed Christophe Bilek, Algerian former Muslim who lives in France since 1961; baptized Roman Catholic in 1970; in the 1990s, he founded Our Lady of Kabyle, a French website devoted to evangelisation among Muslims; Francis Bok – Sudanese-American activist, convert to Islam from Christianity; but later returned to his Christian faith
A cynocephalus. From the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493).. The characteristic of cynocephaly, or cynocephalus (/ s aɪ n oʊ ˈ s ɛ f ə l i /), having the head of a canid, typically that of a dog or jackal, is a widely attested mythical phenomenon existing in many different forms and contexts.