All posts tagged: Islam

Tortured Pakistani Christians forced to convert to Islam under threat of death

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Pakistani police have arrested a Muslim cleric and an associate after the families of two Christian men allege they were tortured and forced to convert to Islam, Evangelical Focus reports. According to the report, on Jan. 22, 2024, two brothers, Azam and Nadeem Masih, were abducted at gunpoint and then beaten with iron rods until they recited the Kalima, which is the Islamic conversion creed. The kidnappers, who threatened the men with death if they didn’t convert, then forced the brothers to state on video that their conversion to Islam was voluntary. The two men were then warned that they should not contact the police about what happened to them. The two brothers came from a poor Christian family, and fearing for their lives, the family did not report the incident to police. The news only came to light, when members of a Pakistani Christian organization, Movement for Christian Awakening, found out about what happened. They convinced the family to go to the police, stating that failure to do so, would only embolden the alleged …

Temple Mount with the Dome of the Rock (Golden Dome) and Al-Aqsa Mosque with the Blue Dome located just below the Dome of the Rock.

Un estudio sugiere que hubo una iglesia en el Monte del Templo, por encima de la Mezquita de al-Aqsa y la Cúpula de la Roca

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El estudio del Proyecto de Tamizado del Monte del Templo (TMSP, por sus siglas en inglés) sugiere que, en el Monte del Templo en Jerusalén, alguna vez hubo una iglesia bizantina, informa el Daily Caller. En un comunicado de prensa, el TMSP anunció que recientemente descubrieron lo que describen como dos “muy raras monedas de denominación de cuatro keration” en el Monte del Templo. Una es de color púrpura, está hecha de vidrio y tiene un sello imperial, lo que indica que fue creada en Constantinopla, la capital original del Imperio Bizantino. Se cree que llegó al Monte del Templo antes de que los musulmanes estuvieran en el lugar. El segundo peso está hecho de latón y tiene la marca griega Kappa Delta. Esta es la 12a moneda bizantina que los investigadores del TMSP han encontrado en el Monte del Templo. Estas monedas, junto con el descubrimiento de algunas exquisitas baldosas de piso bizantinas en el Monte del Templo, llevan a algunos a creer que alguna vez hubo una iglesia bizantina en lo que se …

UN staff participated in Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel

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Staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency supplied RPGs to the Hamas terrorist organization, helped kill Israelis, and even kidnapped a Jewish woman during the terrorist group’s barbaric invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2024, the NY Post reports. The widely condemned activities of the UN workers were determined through texts and phone calls and by tracking the GPS of the UN employees during the invasion. This included a text message sent to one UN worker telling him to bring the RPGs (grenade launchers) that were stored at his home. In another instance, a paid counselor, along with his son, kidnapped a woman who was part of the 200+ Israelis that Hamas abducted during the invasion. Another UN employee actually participated in the invasion of an Israeli kibbutz that resulted in the massacre of 100 Jews. According to reports, dozens of UN employees aided the Hamas terrorists, in varying degrees, during the invasion, with some taking a more active role. According to the NY Post, between 10 and 12 workers at the UN …

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A remnant of Edom will be saved: Former Islamic terrorist predicts that many people living in the Gaza Strip will turn to Christ

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Before believing in Jesus in the 1990s, Tass Saada, 73, was a member of the Fatah terrorist group. In a recent podcast interview with Joel Rosenberg, Tass stated that he believed the latest conflict between Hamas and Israel could result in thousands of people in the Gaza Strip becoming Christians, CBN reports. Tass stated that though Hamas’ ideology has spread throughout the Gaza Strip and indeed around the world, he believes God has a plan for the Muslim people and those living in Gaza. Because of this, he recently made the decision to move back to the Gaza Strip to be part of this move of God. Tass who was born in the Gaza Strip had joined the terrorist movement after the 1967 Six Day War because he believed that the Muslim political leaders were corrupt and were working in hand with the Israeli government. “I did not understand how we could lose so many wars against Israel. We were bigger than Israel in numbers and size, we had more equipment — everything we had …

Watch Tower on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt

Gaza wants to be free of Hamas writes the son of a kidnapped Muslim Imam

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In what many believe is an accurate portrayal of what is really going on, the son of a Muslim Imam based in Gaza is calling for the end of Hamas’ brutal rule, The Blaze reports. The father of Ala Mohammed Mushtaha was recently kidnapped by Hamas because he refused to support and preach the terrorist group’s propaganda. In an article for The Free Press, Mushtaha said that Palestinians no longer support Hamas’ brutal regime and are becoming more vocal in their anger towards the group since the terrorist group’s brutal invasion of Israel. The reason for this, Mushtaha said, is because “ironically, when there is fighting, Hamas goes underground, and people can be more vocal about how Hamas has ruined our lives.” “People are starting to publicly violate the laws, rules, dictates, and orders of Hamas,” Mushtaha wrote. “They are openly cursing Hamas and its leaders in the streets and markets, and ignoring the directives of the few Hamas officials and police still above ground. They have caused so much damage, it’s undeniable.” “They’ve imposed …

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160 Nigerian Christians killed by Islamic extremists in coordinated attacks over Christmas

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A disturbing report out of Nigeria indicates that Islamic extremists killed over 160 Christians, including several pastors, in attacks that extended from Saturday, Dec 23 to Christmas Day, the Christian Daily International Morning Star News reports. The attacks by the Islamic extremists took place in what are considered largely Christian villages. In addition to the 160 dead, 300 were injured in the 20 or so villages targeted by the Islamic terrorists. It is believed that many of the heavily armed terrorists were connected with the Islamic group, Boko Haram, and traveled to the villages by motorcycle. The obviously coordinated attacks took place during Christmas ceremonies or while believers were gathered at churches preparing for the programs. It is believed that the Islamic terrorists were also joined by Muslim Fulani herdsmen, who have been responsible for killing hundreds of Christians in Nigeria over the past several decades. Nigeria has a population of 230 million, with 49% Christian and 48% Muslim. The Muslims live largely in the Northern part of Nigeria and the Christians in the south.

Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritania

Christian leaders arrested in Mauritania after video surfaces of water baptism

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Since November, 15 Christian leaders have been arrested in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, the Christian Post reports. According to reports, they were arrested after a video was released on social media of people being water baptized. Families of those who participated in the ceremony were also arrested. The videos resulted in protests across the country calling for the deaths of the participants. Mauritania is located on the northwest coast of Africa, and a significant proportion of its territory includes the Sahara Desert. It has a population of 4.2 million and is 98% Sunni Muslim. Islam is the country’s official religion. According to one report, Muslims are complaining that nearly half the village where the baptisms took place has become Christian. “They want to stop the progression of the Gospel in this closed land. The police arrested six leaders at the beginning, but after checking the phone of one leader, the police found names. They are after any name they found in that phone,” one Christian leader reported. It is uncertain what crime they were …

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Turkish lawmaker dies after collapsing at the end of his speech where he said Israel would suffer the wrath of Allah

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A Turkish lawmaker, Hasan Bitmez, has died after collapsing from a heart attack in the country’s parliament, literally seconds after he made a speech stating that Israel would experience Allah’s wrath for invading Gaza, the Daily Mail reports. Video shows Hasan Bitmez, 54, falling to the ground behind the podium from a heart attack after condemning Israel’s response to the brutal invasion of its country by the Hamas terrorist group. ‘We can perhaps hide from our conscience but not from history,’ stating that ‘Israel will suffer the wrath of Allah’, Bitmez reportedly said just before he collapsed. Bitmez, who is a member of the Felicity (Saadet) Party, a fundamentalist Islamic party in that country, was rushed to hospital where he later died. During his speech, he also condemned Turkey’s friendly trade relations with Israel. But it may all be just one bizarre coincidence, as according to reports, Bitmez had been experiencing serious health issues prior. But then again, maybe not. In the Book of Acts, Luke records the strange death of Herod Agrippa, who collapsed …

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Michael Youssef discusses the extraordinary evangelistic outreach in Egypt, where nearly 8,000 people committed their lives to Jesus

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Michael Youssef, 75, pastors the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born in Egypt, and raised in Lebanon, and recently he had an extraordinary evangelist outreach in Egypt, the Christian Post reports. The event was organized by Leading the Way, which Youssef heads. Working in conjunction with churches in Cairo, they were expecting about 6,000 people to attend. However, they were shocked when the attendance nearly tripled, as over 17,000 Egyptians showed up at the rally held in November. In fact, more people accepted Christ, 7,850, than they originally expected would attend. Some churches reported that their attendance doubled as a result. This response was unexpected considering that Egypt, a Muslim-dominated country, still has severe restrictions in place against Christianity and particularly evangelistic outreaches. Youssef was quick to add that the success of the meetings was not due to him, but rather the hunger in people’s hearts for God. “It was so massive in terms of a Christian gathering, that nobody can take credit,” Youssef told the Christian Post. “They did not …

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How the words of John the Baptist started a Muslim man’s journey to Christ

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Born and raised in Detroit, MI, Abdu Murray came from a devout Muslim home and recently in an interview on the I Found Truth YouTube channel he shared his journey on how and why he became a Christian. Oddly, it was not a dream that was the catalyst for this conversion but rather the words of John the Baptist. Murray stated that he was a devout Muslim and in his encounters with Christians, he desired to convert them to Islam. When he asked them why they were Christian, the answer he often got was tradition. They were Christians because their parents went to the Presbyterian church. They were born into Christian families. During these encounters Murray would challenge their traditional faith by telling them that the Bible can’t be trusted and the Trinity doesn’t make sense. While he was attending the University of Michigan, two Christian men who were going door to door sharing their faith dropped by Murray’s house. This led to them coming back several times to share their faith about Jesus. During …

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Over 200 Muslim men in the Gaza Strip received a dream of Jesus the same night, report states

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Michael Licona is a Christian professor at Houston Christian University (HCU). He recently posted on Facebook about an incredible miracle that took place in the Gaza Strip when over 200 Muslim men had a dream about Jesus on the same night leading many of them to become Christians, the Western Journal reports. Licona, who teaches the New Testament at HCU, stated he was recently told about this unusual move of the Holy Spirit by an underground Christian ministry working in the Middle East. According to the report, a Christian group in the Gaza Strip had been working with about 200 Muslim men who had lost children in the Gaza conflict which started when Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The group provided food and clothing to the men. In addition to this, they also read the Bible to them about how Jesus would minister peace before the Muslim men returned to their homes. Licona then quoted from the report he received on what happened next: “Then, a big miracle happened. Last night, Jesus appeared …

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Famed atheist and former Muslim, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, announces her conversion to Christianity

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To say that Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been on a spiritual journey would be an understatement. The rather famous political activist recently announced in an article for Unherd.com, that she had converted to Christianity. Prior to her conversion, she had previously been an ardent Muslim and then an atheist. Over the course of her career, Ali has written several books including Heretic: Why Islam needs Reformation Now and Nomad: From Islam to America. She has also received over 16 awards and nominations including Nova Civitas’ Prize of Liberty and was included on Time magazine’s 2005 list of 100 most influential people in the world under its Leaders and Revolutionaries category. In 2006, Reader’s Digest voted her European of the Year. The former Dutch politician was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1969. She started off life as a Muslim, attending an all-girls Islamic school in Somalia where she embraced the more extreme facets of Islam being promoted by Saudi Arabian Muslims who were funding the school. She moved to Holland in 1992 in order to escape …

UN experts send letter to Nigerian government warning its blasphemy laws may violate International human rights law

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Five human rights experts with the United Nations have sent a letter to the Nigerian government warning that the country’s recent blasphemy laws may be in violation of international human rights laws, the Christian Post reports. The letter focussed primarily on what has happened recently to two Christian women, Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu and Rhoda Jatu. In 2022, Yakubu was killed when a mob of Muslim students at Sokoto State University set her on fire after she shared a social media post thanking Jesus for helping her pass an exam. Jatau, who is the mother of five children, has been in prison ever since she shared a video criticizing the senseless murder of Yakubu. Jatau has been denied bail several times since her trial started in December 2022. Both Christian women were accused of blasphemy. In the letter sent by U.N. special rapporteurs Morris Tidball-Binz, Nazila Ghanea, Irene Khan, Matthew Gillett and Fernand de Varennes, the group stated that both the killing and the arrest “appear to be related to the legitimate exercise of the right …

Israel, Gaza, Hamas: Are we missing anything?

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We all know that Israel and the militant organization Hamas, are fighting, and seem to be going to war. If this escalates, there is potential for terrible things, in the world. We could all feel the effects. We already feel the effects, if we follow the news. The media is treating this like something big, and putting it in the headlines. Before I give you my shallow analysis of events in the Middle East, I must give a disclaimer: I am not writing as a military analyst, and I am not writing as a political analyst. If I get into those areas, send me your opinions, and we can have an online coffee conversation. I am writing as a Christian, and I think there are some things we should know. Information is gold. Pretending to believe because I told you to, is modern culture. You know, we have an array of received orthodoxy, things we just have to believe because they are politically correct. I call it ‘just nod and say yes’ culture. I think …

Was Hamas’ invasion of Israel in response to concerns about a possible third Jewish temple being built in Jerusalem?

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Everyone was caught off guard by Hamas’ violent invasion of Israel over the last couple of days. Hamas is an extremist Islamic organization that controls the Gaza Strip located on the Southwestern corner of Israel, bordering the Mediterranean Sea. According to the most recent reports, nearly 700 Israelis have been killed and over 2,000 injured. Along with this, Hamas has captured dozens of Israelis and foreigners, including several women and children. Horrific videos emerged of Hamas terrorists dragging captured women through the streets. There are undoubtedly numerous reasons for the invasion which may even include an attempt to derail burgeoning peace talks between Israel and the rest of the Middle East, including most recently Saudi Arabia. But at the heart of it, Hamas, which is backed by the Iranian government, represents the most extreme elements of Islam. Concerns about the Jews building a third temple One factor that may explain the most recent violence, centers around the growing controversy over the Temple Mount located in Old Jerusalem. In fact, Hamas named the invasion, ‘Al-Aqsa Storm’, …

Christian evangelist in Uganda murdered after leading several Muslims to Christ

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A Christian evangelist in Uganda was killed after leading several people including Muslims to Jesus at an evangelistic rally, Morning Star News reports. The 33-year-old evangelist, Philip Bere, was riding home on his bicycle with his assistant after the meeting when he was accosted by several men. Bere was pulled off his bike, and one of the assailants then bashed his head with a large rock. His assistant, Mudenya Sirasi, said as they rode along in the evening they were attacked by men who were hiding in the bushes along both sides of the road. Sirasi, who was able to flee the scene and hide under a nearby bridge, added that the men who attacked Bere had mentioned this was the man who had converted Muslims to Christ and said he needed to be killed. Located in East Central Africa, Uganda has a population of 48 million people. While only 14% of the population is Muslim, they are concentrated in the eastern part of the country where Bere was preaching the gospel. Bere had gained …

Jonathan Cahn tells what happened when his car was surrounded by Muslims in Nigeria

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Though Muhammad is considered the prophet of Islam, it is interesting to note that the Muslim Quran, Islam’s version of the Christian Bible, has more to say about Jesus than it does about Muhammad. Significantly more. Among other things, it describes Jesus as a miracle worker, healer, and prophet. The Quran also states that Jesus is the Messiah. However, the Quran also does not believe that Jesus died on the cross, it actually states that the disciples mistakenly thought He had. But the Quran also says that Jesus actually did not die and was taken to heaven while still alive. The Quran adds that Jesus will even return with Islam’s Mahdi (imam) during Islamic end times. This is in contrast to Muhammad who did die and will not return with Mahdi. So in many ways, Jesus has a very prominent role in Islam, and it could be argued even more than Muhammad. So with this as a bit of background, Christian teacher and Messianic Jew Jonathan Cahn recently shared in a video about an incident …

Will San Francisco State University enforce Islam’s blasphemy law?

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An incident in California has exposed an interesting division in Islam. You have undoubtedly heard of Muslims becoming outraged when people show images of Muhammad. Many Muslims, but not all, consider such images as an act of blasphemy. Maziar Behrooz, who teaches at San Francisco State University, found himself under investigation by school administrators for allegedly showing a picture of Muhammad in one of his classes, Front Page reports. This is perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this story as it appears by opening an investigation, the university is prepared to enforce Islam’s blasphemy laws in America. But here is the fascinating twist. Behrooz is a Muslim and teaches Islamic history at the university. But he is also a Shia Muslim and Shiites actually allow and use pictures of Muhammad as part of their religious expression. However, Sunnis, another branch of Islam do not, and they consider it a blasphemous act to have a picture of Muhammad. And according to Front Page, Behrooz was allegedly showing a Shiite icon of Muhammad, and it is suspected …

Pakistan hikes up punishment for blasphemy

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Christians in Muslim-dominated Pakistan are expressing concerns about recent changes to the country’s blasphemy law, the Christian Post reports. The change increases the punishment for anyone who criticizes the companions, wives, and friends of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad. Under old legislation, a person could potentially face a prison sentence of three years for such criticism. This has now been increased to a maximum of 10 years, and a potential fine of approximately $4,500US. Over the years, Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have been abused. People have made false allegations in an effort to seize lands, take out competitors and as revenge in petty disputes. The irony is that during cases, people accusing others of blasphemy are not allowed to reveal what the accused said, because that would be an act of blasphemy as well. So it comes down to the justice system having to take the accuser’s word for it, which has opened the process up to corruption. There are also reports of prosecutors offering to drop the charges, in a non-blasphemy-related case, against non-Muslim citizens if they …

Man murdered after helping lead 8 Muslims to Christ in Uganda

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When six Muslim men and two women became Christians after a public debate between Christianity and Islam in the village of Sirimula, in Uganda on July 6, 2022, Islamic extremists attacked the Christian participants, killing Robert Bwenje, 28. As Pastor Ambrose Mugisha, 25, and Bwenje, who had participated in the debate, were returning to their home village, Nyamiringa, they were attacked by a group of men shouting, “Allah akbar, Allah akbar [Allah is greater].” The assailants fled when a passerby stumbled upon the assault. Both the Christian men were taken to a local hospital, where Bwenje later died from his injuries. Mugisha, who works as an assistant pastor at Elim Pentecostal Church in Nyamiringa, had initiated the debate as part of a plan to establish a church in Surimula. READ: Christian man killed by Islamic extremists in ambush attack after 8 Muslims put their faith in Christ

Is America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan a fulfillment of Islamic end-times prophecy?

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Similar to Christianity, Islam also has an end times theology that involves the arrival of a Muslim Messiah, who will set up Islam on world-wide scale. This person is referred to as the ‘Mahdi’ According to CBN, the take over of Afghanistan by the Taliban, after America’s withdrawal, is now being heralded as a fulfilment of prophecy paving the way for the arrival of the ‘Mahdi.’ It reports that the radical Islamic group’s twitter page is specifically referencing ‘black flags’, that are tied to the Islamic end times. The radical Islamic group states, “Black flags will arise from Khorasan and nothing will be able to return them.” According to author Joel Richardson, the reference to black flags from Khorasan, which is located in Afghanistan, is connected to the arrival of the Islamic Messiah. In a webinar sponsored by CBN, Richardson explained: “It says an army will come from Khorasan carrying black flags and then it says this: ‘If you see them give them your allegiance.  Even if you have to crawl over ice.  Because this …

Islamophobia: What is the lesson for us?

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What do you think when you hear the word “Islamophobia?” This is a new word, and it refers to prejudice and dislike of Muslims. Recently, in Canada, the government held a summit on the topic of Islamophobia. I should give a disclaimer here. The conference was about the religion of Islam, and I am a Christian. I remember a song when I was younger, with these words: “Jesus is the answer, for the world today. Above him there’s no other, Jesus is the way.” That is a good description of what I believe. I will give a link to that song, below. The old saying is ‘If you don’t play the game, you can’t make the rules.’ That applies to me. Imagine if I gave advice about what Jewish people should have done to resist their persecutors. That would be offensive. I am an outsider looking on from a distance. So, what can we say about Islamophobia? The conference came and went quickly, and most people missed the information. There was also a conference just …

Muslims and Christians: Did one of ours kill some of theirs?

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Recently, a young man drove his pickup truck at a high speed, and drove into a family that was walking on a summer day. Four adults were killed, except for one survivor, a young boy who was badly injured. The whole family was Muslim, originally from Pakistan, and that was obvious by their appearance. They were attacked because they were identified as Muslims. In the world, the number of Muslims is almost two billion, 1.8 billion, and this incident is being reported everywhere. This all happened in a peaceful country, Canada, in a very quiet part of that country, London, Ontario. The family probably felt very safe walking in London on a summer day. The young man, who drove the truck, was arrested, and now he is being charged with a hate crime. READ: Terror charges against London, Ont attack suspect could be Canadian legal milestone At this time, people who knew the young man are surprised that he did this. He had issues with his mental health, but otherwise there is nothing in his …

Pastor murdered after debate between Christianity and Islam

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According to Morning Star Ministries, a Pentecostal pastor in Eastern Uganda was allegedly killed by Muslim extremists shortly after engaging in a public debate between Christianity and Islam. Muslims in Pallisa Town, where Pastor Thomas Chikooma has his church, had been holding nightly discussions in a community park and decided as part of this to set up a public debate between Christianity and Islam. Though only 14% of Ugandans are Muslim, they are concentrated in the eastern region of the country where the debate took place. The Islamic group invited Pastor Chikooma, a popular minister who had established over 50 churches in the area, to speak on behalf of Christianity during the debate between to the two faiths. However, things did not go as anticipated for the Muslim organizers as Pastor Chikooma effectively used both the Bible and the Koran to present his case for Christianity. At the end, he invited those watching to receive Christ and according to reports, 14 people, including six Muslims, made a decision to become Christians. This turn of events …

Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy

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A Pakistani Christian man, Asif Pervaiz, 37, has been in jail since 2013 after he refused his supervisors request to convert to Christianity. When Pervaiz refused, the factory supervisor then accused Pervaiz of sending blasphemous texts against Islam, that the Christian man denied sending. Pervaiz has been in jail since 2013 and this year was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to death.

The Spiritual Life of Turkey

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For a generation, Turkey has been governed by conservative Muslims, who want to revive the old religion. For decades before that, the nation was officially secular and religion was excluded from government. That changed about twenty years ago. The return-to-religion plan has been very successful, except for one thing; teenagers don’t like it. In time, children grow to be adults, and soon the new generation will be the majority. That new generation has a very different culture from official government policy. The generation raised to be pious in the old religion has its own ideas. READ: Turks Examine Their Muslim Devotion After Poll Says Faith Could Be Waning

Are Muslims Changing?

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I have a new phone. My old Motorola still worked well, but it couldn’t accept all the upgrades to the apps loaded onto it; bloatware. My new phone has the capacity, and I am surprised by the huge volume of information that I can get from that small computer in my pocket. I can watch movies, and the news, play video games, or learn a new language, and so much more. When I go to church, I don’t need to carry a Bible; I just click on a Bible app on my phone. There are many of these apps, in most languages, and most are free. You knew that already, but imagine living in a small town in the conservative Middle East. You belong to the religion of your father, by law, and you can never quit or change to something different. For many the highest education you can achieve is in a Koranic school, where you memorize the holy book. In your lifetime, you might never meet a person who has a different religion …

The new Babylon?

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In 597 BC, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah and part of his strategy involved removing defeated peoples from their homeland and transporting them to other regions of the empire. It was thought if they were living in another area of the world there would be less incentive to rebel and try to reclaim their country. And for the most part that was probably true. Part of this process also involved bringing the best and brightest of the conquered nations into Babylon where they were trained in the ways of Babylon. These young leaders were undoubtedly expected to influence Jews now in captivity. Initially, these men including Daniel were allowed to practice their faith and eat the foods approved under the Mosaic law. However, things took a dramatic change when Nebuchadnezzar constructed a giant statue and required everyone to bow down and worship it, under the threat of a fiery death if they didn’t obey. When three of Daniel’s friends (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego) refused to compromise their faith in Jehovah by bowing to another …

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Is Islam Incompatible with Christianity?

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Very recently, in a “town hall” meeting, a citizen questioned the Prime Minister of Canada, and stated that Islam is not compatible with Christianity. People in the audience booed, and I have since read comments aimed at the citizen, about Fascists and Nazis and intolerant people. RELATED: Trudeau stands up for immigrants as town hall questioner slams Islam I know the speaker had one big problem. He is an unsophisticated citizen and he was up against a skilled and sophisticated spin-doctor politician. My advice to anyone who disagrees with a professional politician, is to stay away from the microphone. We can’t compete in their arena. In the case of the Canadian Prime Minister, the citizen with a grievance became a foil. In literature, that means a mirror. If the citizen can appear to be bumbling and unsophisticated, the politician can look like a shining star of reasonableness, in contrast. The citizen’s concern will never be heard, and no-one will try to understand. Modern western culture is dominated by sound bites, and insulting put-downs, and bitter …

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Despite death threats, former Iranian woman leads hundreds of Muslims to Christ in Sweden

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Annahita Parsan, 47, now lives in Sweden where she pastors two churches. A former Muslim herself, she actively reaches out to Muslim refugees in her adopted country and trains other churches on how to reach those of the Islamic faith. Over the last 15 years, Parsan estimates she has led 1,500 Muslims to Christ. In an interview with Foxnews, Parsan tells how she was born into a Muslim family in Iran and was married at age 16, Two years later, her husband died in a car accident shortly after she gave birth to their son. According to Iranian law, on the death of a husband, the husband’s father becomes responsible for raising any boys. This required Parsan to take legal action to win her son back. During what is referred to as the Islamic Revolution, in 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran. The country dramatically changed over night. Parsan remarried and in 1984, her husband decided they needed to flee to Turkey where they were arrested for illegally entering the country. On their release, …

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Similar to Evangelicals, Roman Catholics are reporting Muslims converting to Christianity

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According to World Watch Monitor, on November 12, an Iranian who had converted to Christianity, lost his appeal of a ten-year prison sentence for sharing his faith. In May, Naser Navard Gol-Tapeh, along with three men from Azerbaijan were sentenced to ten years for missionary activity along with trumped-up charges of “actions against national security.” The secret police arrested the four men when they attended a wedding in June 2016. Shortly after their arrest, the Iranians allowed the three Azerbaijans to leave Iran while on bail and then sentenced them in abstention. It is doubtful they will return to complete their sentence. But unfortunately, Naser must fulfill his sentence in the brutal Iranian prison system renown for its torture. Since early spring, human rights groups have noticed Iranian courts are handing out unusually long sentences to Christians for simply sharing their faith. Yet despite Iran’s crackdown on Christianity, or maybe because of it, reports are coming in about the large numbers of Muslims abandoning Islam and embracing Christianity in Iran and other Islamic countries. Even …

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Has Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan become a Christian?

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Christian Post (CP) recently reported on a curious video posted to Youtube last week by Louis Farrakhan, the former leader of the Nation of Islam. It suggests the controversial leader may have become a Christian. Farrakhan, 87, gave up leadership of the 50,000 Black Muslim group in 2006 due to ill-health. He was suffering the after effects of prostate cancer. William Fard started the Nation of Islam in 1934 and during the 1970s it had upwards of two million members. The organization holds to the tenants of Islam and believers that Allah is the only god. Some believe Fard was the Muslim Mahdi, the Islamic equivalent of a messiah. Farrakhan became involved with the Nation of Islam after a brief career as a professional musician. In the mid-70s, he even served as a Sunni Muslim Imam for about three years. As early as 2015, a video shows Farrakhan talking about Jesus as the Redeemer though at the time he said Jesus was a Muslim. However, in the video posted recently Farrakhan seems to have a …

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Marilyn Hickey, a Pakistani anomaly

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As we read about Christians being persecuted in Muslim countries, a weird anomaly keeps popping up — American televangelist Marilyn Hickey. Aged 86, last November during a eight-day tour she preached the gospel in Karachi, Pakistan before crowds totaling nearly one million people. She did it freely with no resistance from the government or threats from Muslim extremists. According to reports she is known as the ‘mom of Pakistan” and for some reason has even been accepted by imams in the Muslim Pakistani community. The terrorists basically ignore her because she is an old woman. Officially known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, with 201 million people it is the sixth most populated country in the world. It was formed in 1947 as a home for Muslims living in India and nearly 95% of the country is Muslim. In its revised 1973 constitution, the country declared Islam its state religion and all laws must be in accordance with the Qur’an and Sunnah. At this point, the country has not implemented Sharia law, however polls indicate …