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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 ...
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]
Rifqa Bary is the only daughter of Mohamed and Aysha Bary. She grew up in Columbus, Ohio with her older brother Rilvan and her younger brother Rajaa. [5] Her parents initially came to the U.S. from Sri Lanka to seek medical care for Rifqa after she became blind in her right eye when Rilvan threw a toy airplane at her when she was 5. [6]
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]
Since the 1960s, there has been a substantial increase in the number of conversions from Islam to Christianity, mostly to the Evangelical and Pentecostal denominations of Christianity. [88] The 2015 study Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background: A Global Census estimated that 10.2 million Muslims converted to Christianity. [89]
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
Maqsood was a convert to Islam from Christianity in 1986. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She taught religious studies in the United Kingdom for more than thirty years. [ 4 ] Prior to her retirement in 1996, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] she had been head of religious education at a Hull secondary school.
Christians have also contributed as educationists, doctors, lawyers and businessmen. One of Pakistan's cricketers, Yousuf Youhana, was born Christian, but later converted to Islam, taking the Islamic name Mohammad Yousuf. In Britain, the bishop emeritus of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali is a Pakistani Christian.