Islam
Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims
Millions of Muslims Converting to Christianity
05 Jan, 2007
Pastor Paul Ciniraj and a believer
from Islam
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
Thousands of Muslims turned to Christ and
worshipping Lord Jesus in Morocco, Somalia, Indonesia, Thailand,
Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, UAE and
Maldives.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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."
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).
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.
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.