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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]
Lina Joy is a Malay convert from Islam to Christianity.Born Azlina Jailani on 28 July 1964 [1] in Malaysia to Muslim parents of Javanese descent, [2] she converted at age 26. The Lina Joy case sparkled a debate about apostasy in Malaysia, [3] and her failed legal attempt to not have her religion listed as "Islam" on her identity card is considered a landmark case in Malaysia.
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. 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
King Ezana after converting to christianity. Tiridates III of Armenia, King of Armenia, in 301; Ezana of Axum, King of Aksum, 320; Constantine I, Roman emperor, in 337; Mirian III of Iberia, King of Iberia, c. 337
Aminah Assilmi (born Janice Huff, 1945 – 5 March 2010) [1] was an American broadcast journalist, national Muslim community activist [2] and director of the International Union of Muslim Women. [3] Formerly a Southern Baptist preacher, she converted to Islam in 1977 in college while trying to convert some Muslims to Christianity. As the ...
Maria was an Egyptian woman who, along with her sister Sirin bint Shamun, was initially given as a slave to prophet Muhammad in 628 by Al-Muqawqis, a Christian governor of Alexandria, during the territory's Sasanian occupation. She spent the rest of her life in Medina, became a formal wife, and had a son, Ibrahim with Muhammad. The son died in ...