According to Al-Jazeerah’s interview with Sheikh Ahmad Al Katani, the
president of The Companions Lighthouse for the Science of Islamic Law
in Libya, In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity.
Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6
million Muslims convert to Christianity in Africa alone so you can
imagine the worldwide numbers. How many others of them convert to
Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism or just plain atheism? MILLIONS.
After reporting this Al-Jazeerah has since removed the interview and details but we got the screencap from the original story.
Islam, SVM News,
1 January, 2007: Millions of Muslim converts to Christianity celebrated
Christmas throughout the world. According the reports of the various
missionary organizations and news medias.
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The Salem Voice
Ministries evangelizing Muslims in India and many other Muslim nations.
There are about 500 evangelists ministering among Muslims in
different African, Middle East and Asian countries. A vast number of
Muslims finding the truth and attaining Salvation of Jesus Christ day by
day.
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‘More Muslims
converted to faith in Jesus Christ over the past decade than at any
other time in human history. A spiritual revolution is underway
throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. As a result,
a record number of ex-Muslims are celebrating Christmas this year,
despite intense persecution, assassinations, and widespread church
bombings’. These are the words of Joel C. Rosenberg, the author of the
New York Times best selling political thriller.
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He said, he and
his wife and kids were lived in the Mideast for three months. During
that time, he had the privilege of interviewing more than three dozen
Arab and Iranian pastors and evangelical leaders throughout the region.
The picture they paint is one of Christianity being dramatically
resurrected in the region of its birth.
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More than 10,000
Muslims accepted Jesus Christ as their personal saviour throughout India
during the last year. The Bible Society of India publishing thousands
of New Testaments for the Muslims with their own terminology and
vocabulary in different Indian languages and Tazi language. Pastor Paul
Ciniraj Mohamed, the Director of the Salem Voice Ministries is one of
the key persons of the Bible translators of the Bible Society of India
to reach the Gospel to the Muslims. He is in the midst of persecution.
Recently also he was threatened by the extremists to count down his days
along with the whole family.
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In Iraq, more than
5,000 Muslim converts to Christianity have been identified since the
end of major combat operations, with 14 new churches opened in Baghdad,
and dozens of new churches opened in Kurdistan, some of which have 500
to 800 members. Also, more than one million Bibles shipped into the
country since 2003, and pastors report Iraqis are snatching them up so
fast they constantly need more Bibles.
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Thousands of
Muslims turned to Christ and worshiping Lord Jesus in Morocco, Somalia,
Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi
Arabia, UAE and Maldives.
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Around a million
believed in Jesus over the past decade in Egypt. The Egyptian Bible
Society used to sell about 3,000 copies of the JESUS film a year in the
early 1990s. As per the figures taken from the Millennium campaign in
2000, they sold 600,000 copies, plus 750,000 copies of the individual
cassette tapes (in Arabic) and about a half million copies of the Arabic
New Testament. Ramez Atallah, the General Secretary of the Bible Society of Egypt informed Pastor Paul Ciniraj by email. “Egyptians are increasingly hungry for God’s Word,” he said.
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‘Last Christmas, I
had the privilege of visiting the largest Christian congregation in the
Middle East, which meets in an enormous cave on the outskirts of Cairo.
Some 10,000 believers worship there every weekend. A prayer conference
the church held in May 2005 drew some 20,000 believers’, Rosenberg told.
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There were only 17
Christians from Islam in Afghanistan on 2001. But there are more than
10,000 believers at present. Every week dozens of baptisms being held
there.
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In 1990, there
were only three known Christians in Kazakhstan and no Christians in
Uzbekistan, but now more than 15,000 in Kazakhstan and 30, 000 in
Uzbekistan. There were only 500 Christians in Iran on 1979, but more
than one million Iranians believing Jesus Christ today, most of whom
meet in underground house churches.
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In Sudan, more
than one million have converted since 2000, and some 5 million have
become Christians since the early 1990s, despite a radical Islamic
regime and an on-going genocide that has killed more than 200,000.
Seminaries are being held in caves to train pastors to shepherd the huge
numbers of people coming to Christ. Why such a dramatic spiritual
awakening? “People have seen real Islam, and they want Jesus instead,”
one Sudanese evangelical leader said.
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In December 2001,
Sheikh Ahmad al Qataani, a leading Saudi cleric, appeared on a live
interview on Al-Jazeera satellite television to confirm that, sure
enough, Muslims were turning to Jesus in alarming numbers. “In every
hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity,” Al Qataani warned. “Every
day, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 million
Muslims convert to Christianity.”
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Stunned, the
interviewer interrupted the cleric. “Hold on! Let me clarify. Do we have
six million converting from Islam to Christianity?” Al Qataani repeated
his assertion. “Every year,” the cleric confirmed, adding, “a tragedy
has happened.”
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One of the most
dramatic developments is that many Muslims — including Shiites in Iran
and Iraq — are seeing dreams and visions of Jesus and thus coming into
churches explaining that they have already converted and now need a
Bible and guidance on how to follow Jesus. This is the fulfillment of
Biblical prophecy of Joel, “in the last days, I will pour out my Spirit
on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will
dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both
men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days….And everyone
who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.” (Joel 2:28-32).
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Within few
years all of the Muslim nations will come to Christ by the work of the
Holy Spirit. Satan knows it, that’s why he tries to discourage and
destroy the Christian workers and the believers through the persecution
and brutal murdering. But our Lord Jesus will have the final victory.
Pastor Paul Ciniraj said.
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Idris Salahudeen,
the Pastor of the Salem Voice Ministries said, hundreds upon hundreds
ordinary Muslims believing Jesus and secretly converting into
Christianity by seeing brutal behaviour of fundamentalists towards
Christians. Maybe this torturing is a purification of nominal Christians
to have more faith and courage.
A statement issued by the association in Kaduna signed by its Public
Relations Officer (PRO), Reverend Joseph Hayab, stressed that: “Such a
misadventure, if it is true, will set a wrong precedent, which could
open doors for mischief makers to set this nation into disarray.
