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When Islam presented a serious military threat to Italy and Central Europe during the mid-15th century, Pope Nicholas V tried to unite Christendom against them but failed. He then granted Portugal the right to subdue and even enslave Muslims, pagans and other unbelievers in the papal bull Dum Diversas (1452). [ 14 ]
Due to geographical proximity, most of the early Christian critiques of Islam were associated with Eastern Christians. The Quran was not translated from Arabic into the Latin language until the 12th century, when the English Catholic priest Robert of Ketton made the Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete translation (Robert was active in the Diocese of Pamplona, not far removed from the Arabic-speakers in ...
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 ...
Marmaduke Pickthall – English convert to Islam, famous for his English-language translation of the Quran known as The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. José Padilla – also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah; US citizen from Brooklyn, New York; convicted in federal court of aiding terrorists; also known as "the dirty bomber" [ 111 ]
Quamvis ad amplianda is a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI on 1 June 1500 calling for a crusade against the Ottoman Empire in response to Ottoman invasions of Venetian territories in Greece. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After requests for funds and military support from the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire were rejected, a universal tithe was ...
Knut Ansgar Nelson: Danish-born convert who was a bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Stockholm [277] Irène Némirovsky: author of the controversial David Golder, autobiographical Le Vin de solitude, and posthumous success Suite française [278] [279] [280] Richard John Neuhaus: priest; founder and editor of the journal First Things [281]
Pope Alexander VII in 1661 sought to purchase 100 slaves for the Papal galleys. [148] Innocent X in 1645 authorized the purchase of 100 Turkish slaves to serve in the Papal galleys. [162] Clement XI directed the Holy Office to appeal to his nuncios in Madrid and Lisbon to act in ending slavery. [163]
Ishoʿsabran — was a Persian Zoroastrian convert to Christianity who was martyred in the Sasanian Empire in 620 or 621. [49] Javanshir — was the prince of Caucasian Albania from 637 to 680, hailing from the region of Gardman. Joseph Hazzaya — was an 8th-century Syriac Christian writer, ascetic and mystic. [50]