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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 ...
In 1990, [5] at the age of 19, [3] he converted from Islam to Christianity after studying the differences between the two faiths [5] with the original intent to defend Islam. [4] When his parents found out about his conversion, they ejected him from their home, and he went to live with a missionary but was eventually forced to flee Morocco. [8]
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]
Qureshi chronicled the story of his personal conversion in his first book, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, which became a New York Times bestseller, [14] and was awarded the Christian Book Award for the categories of both "Best New Author" and "Best Non-Fiction" of 2015, the first time in award history. [15]
Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person that brings about changes in what sociologists refer to as the convert's "root reality" including their social behaviors, thinking and ethics. The sociology of religion indicates religious conversion was an important factor in the emergence of ...
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 ...
Muhammad Khodabandeh (Oljeitu) – Nestorian Christian upbringing; Buddhism, Sunni Islam, and Shia Islam. David Kirk – Originally Baptist; became a deacon in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and later converted to the Orthodox Church in America. [14] Setsuzo Kotsuji – Born Shinto; converted to Presbyterian Christianity and then Judaism. [15]
Robert of St. Albans – English templar knight who converted to Islam from Christianity in 1185 and led an army for Saladin against the Crusaders in Jerusalem [134] Christian Rontini – Filipino footballer, he decided to convert from Catholicism to Islam while playing football in Indonesia [135]