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Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 7:07pm On Jan 18, 2015
Aslan Abashidze – former leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic
in western Georgia .[6]
Basuki Abdullah – Indonesian painter converted to Roman Catholicism .
[7]
Ibrahim Abdullah – American former PLO terrorist. [8]
Saeed Abedini – an Iranian- American Christian pastor imprisoned in
Iran . [9]
Abo of Tiflis – Christian activist and the Patron Saint of the city of
Tbilisi , Georgia. [1]
Taysir Abu Saada – a former member of the PLO and the founder of
the Christian ministry Hope For Ishmael after he converted to
Christianity. He was Yasir Arafat 's personal driver. [10][11]
Abraham of Bulgaria – martyr and saint of the Russian Orthodox
Church .[12]
Rotimi Adebari - first Black mayor in Ireland.[13]
St. Adolphus – Christian martyr who was put to death along with his
brother, John, by Abd ar-Rahman II , Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy.
[14]
Leo Africanus – a Moorish diplomat and author who was baptized in the
Basilica of Saint Peter's in 1520.
Safdar Ali – former Maulvi (Cleric) from India. [15][16]
Mehmet Ali Ağca – Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist
Abdi İpekçi on 1 February 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John
Paul II on 13 May 1981. While in prison in 2007 he claimed to convert to
Christianity. [17]
Jabalah ibn al-Aiham – last ruler of the Ghassanid state in Syria and
Jordan in the 7th century AD. After the Islamic conquest of Levant he
converted to Islam in AD 638. He reverted to Christianity later on and
lived in Anatolia until he died in AD 645. [18]
Daniel Ali – an Iraqi Kurdish author, speaker and Former Kurdish
Muslim Scholar (Ulama/Mullah). In September 1995, he became a born-
again Christian and became an Iraqi Roman Catholic, and thereafter
commenced his writings on Islam. [19]
Magdi Allam (baptized as Magdi Cristiano Allam ) – Italy's most
famous Islamic affairs journalist. [4]
Zachariah Anani – former Sunni Muslim Lebanese militia fighter. [20]
Hussain Andaryas – Afghan Christian activist and tele-evangelist. [21]
Melissa Ariani – Indonesian model and presenter TV, converted to
Protestantism after marriage. [22][23]
Matthew Ashimolowo – Nigerian -born British pastor and evangelist.
[24]
Avraamy Aslanbegov – a Russian - Azeri vice-admiral and military
writer of the Russian Empire , converted to Eastern Orthodox
Christianity . [25]
Aurelius and Natalia – Christian martyrs who were put to death during
the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy. [26]
Johannes Avetaranian – (born Muhammad Shukri Efendi), Christian
missionary and Turkish descendant of Muhammad .[27]
Asmirandah - Indonesian actress, converted to Christianity after her
controversial marriage to Jonas Rivanno, Indonesian actor.

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 7:08pm On Jan 18, 2015
Josephine Bakhita – Roman Catholic saint from Darfur , Sudan. [28]
Sarah Balabagan – Filipina prisoner in the United Arab Emirates
during 1994 – 96. [29]
Fathima Rifqa Bary – American teenager of Sri Lankan descent who
drew international attention in 2009 when she ran away from home and
claimed that her Muslim parents might kill her for having converted to
Christianity. [30]
Sheikh Ahmed Barzani – head of Barzani Tribe in Iraqi Kurdistan and
older brother of Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish nationalist leader. He
announced his conversion to Christianity in 1931 during the anti-
government uprising. [31]
Bayano – an African Mandika enslaved by Spaniards who led the
biggest of the slave revolts of 16th-century Panama. The Mandikas
were predominantly Muslim and Bayano was baptized as a devout
Christian.
Simeon Bekbulatovich – Khan of Qasim Khanate .[32]
Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky – Russian officer of Circassian origin
who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia.[33]
Ibrahim Ben Ali – soldier, physician, and one of the earliest American
settlers of Turkish origin. [34]
Mohammed Christophe Bilek – an Algerian former Muslim who lives in
France since 1961. Bilek was baptized in 1970. In the 1990s, he founded
the Our Lady of Kabyle (in French), a website devoted to
evangelisation among Muslims.[35]
Francis Bok – Sudanese- American activist, convert to Islam from
Christianity; but later returned to his Christian faith. [36]
Jean-Bédel Bokassa – Central African Republic Emperor (from
Christianity to Islam back to Christianity). [37]
Dr.Thomas Yayi Boni – President of Benin .[38]
Sayed Borhan khan – Khan of Qasim Khanate from 1627 to 1679. [32]
Broery – Indonesian singer (from Protestantism to Islam back to
Protestantism). [39][40]
Nur Aishah Bukhari – a Malay , converted and baptized in October 1997
to Roman Catholicism, being sought by the Malaysian justice to have
been recognized guilty of apostasy.[41][42]
C
Rianti Cartwright – Indonesian actress, model, presenter and VJ. Two
weeks before departure to the United States to get married, Rianti
left the Muslim faith to become a baptized Catholic with the name
Sophia Rianti Rhiannon Cartwright.[43][44]
Kassian Cephas – Indonesian photographer.[45][46]
Chamillionaire – (born Hakeem Seriki) American rapper. [47][48]
Djibril Cissé – French international footballer. [49][50]
Hansen Clarke – the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 13th
congressional district .[51]
Eldridge Cleaver – initially associated with the Nation of Islam then
Evangelical Christianity then Mormonism. [52][53]
Constantine the African – Baghdad -educated Muslim who died in 1087
as a Christian monk at Monte Cassino.[54][55]
Converso – substantial numbers of Iberian Muslims were converted to
Christianity. These New Christians of Moorish Berber origin were
known as Moriscos . Over 1 million of these Moriscos were converted
from Islam to Christianity. [56]
Michał Czajkowski – Polish - Cossack writer and political emigre who
worked both for the resurrection of Poland and the reestablishment
of a Cossack Ukraine.[57]
D
Moussa Dadis Camara – ex-officer of the Guinean army .[58][59]
Justinus Darmojuwono – the first Indonesian Cardinal of the Roman
Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Semarang from 1963 to
1981, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967. Converted to
Catholicism in 1932.[60]
Nonie Darwish – an Egyptian - American writer, human rights activist,
critic of Islam,founder of Arabs for Israel, and is Director of Former
Muslims United .[61]
Sedar Dedeoglu – a Turk who claims to be a descendant of Islam's
prophet Muhammad has converted to Christianity while living in
Germany .[62]
Hassan Dehqani-Tafti – the first ethnic Persian to become a Christian
bishop of Iran since the 7th century and the Islamic conquest of
Persia . [63]
Mehdi Dibaj – Iranian Christian convert from Sunni Islam , pastor and
Christian martyr .[64][65]
Momolu Dukuly – Liberian politician became the second foreign minister
under William V.S. Tubman.[66][67]
Daniel Bambang Dwi Byantoro – leader (and Archimandrite) of the
Indonesian Orthodox Church .[68][69]

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 7:09pm On Jan 18, 2015
Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad – Egyptian former Muslim
sheikh who theological discourse with a Christian led him to conduct an
intensive study of Christian Scripture, after which he converted to
Christianity in January 2005. [70]
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari – the second wife and Queen Consort of
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , the late Shah of Iran who converted to
Roman Catholicism .[71]
Antonio Espares – Filipino worker based in Libya , beheaded for
apostasy in 2014 (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity). [72]
[73]
Estevanico – Berber originally from Morocco and one of the early
explorers of the Southwestern United States. [74]
Gulshan Esther – Pakistani convert from Islam to Christianity. [75]
F
Joseph Fadelle – (born Mohammed al-Sayyid al-Moussawi), is a Roman
Catholic convert from Islam and a writer born in 1964 in Iraq in a
Shiite family. [76]
Donald Fareed – Iranian Christian tele-evangelist and minister. [77]
Hazem Farraj – an Palestinian-American writer, minister, and
televangelist. [78]
Jacob Frank – 18th-century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be
the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi , and
also of King David . Frank publicly converted to Islam in 1757 and later
to Christianity at Poland in 1759, but actually presented himself as
the Messiah of a syncretic derivation of Shabbatai Zevi's Messianism
now referred to as Frankism .[79]
G
Mark A. Gabriel - Egyptian Islamic scholar and writer. [80]
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross - counter-terrorism expert and attorney
(from Judaism to Islam to Christianity). [81][82]
Akbar Gbaja-Biamila – a former American football linebacker who
currently works as a sports analyst for NBC and NFL Network who
converted to Christianity from Islam.
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila – an American football defensive end who was
drafted by the Green Bay Packers and is currently a free agent.
George XI of Kartli – a Georgian monarch who ruled Eastern Georgia
from 1676 to 1688 and again from 1703 to 1709. Being an Eastern
Orthodox Christian, he converted to Islam prior to his appointment as
governor of Qandahar. He later converted to Roman Catholicism. [83]
Fathia Ghali - Egyptian princess and youngest daughter of Fuad I of
Egypt and Nazli Sabri .[84][85]
Ghias ad-din – an Azeri prince of the Seljuk dynasty of Rum , convert
to Eastern Orthodox Christianity .[86]
Ruffa Gutierrez – Filipina actress, model and former beauty queen
(from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity). [87][88][89]
H
Umar ibn Hafsun – leader of anti- Ummayad dynasty forces in
southern Iberia . Hafsun converted to Christianity with his sons and
ruled over several mountain valleys for nearly forty years, having the
castle Bobastro as his residence. [90]
Naveed Afzal Haq – Pakistani - American charged for the July 2006
Seattle Jewish Federation shooting . He converted to Christianity in
December 2005 but reverted to Islam by the time of the shooting.[91]
Khalif Majid Hassan – former African American Islamic Preacher,
Minister in the Nation of Islam (from Christianity to Islam back to
Christianity). [92]
Rajah Humabon – first Filipino Sultan convert to Roman Catholicism in
the name of Carlos. [93][94]
Mohammed Hegazy – first Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to
seek official recognition of his conversion from the Egyptian
Government. Hegazy was forced into hiding because of threats
related to his conversion.
Aben Humeya – (born Fernando de Valor) Morisco Chief who was
crowned the Emir of Andalusia by his followers and led the Morisco
Revolt against Philip II of Spain .[95]
I
Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh – brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh , the wife of
Muhammad and one of the male Sahaba (companions of the Prophet).
[96]
Tunch Ilkin – former American football player. [97]
Nasir Isiaku – former member of the Islamic sect Boko Haram .[98][99]
Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag – a Sudanese woman condemned to death
for apostasy 2013, but released to June 2014. [100]
Raden Iskak – Indonesian teacher, soldier, director, and composer
converted to Catholicism in the name of Robert .[101][102]
Jessica Iskandar – Indonesian actress and model (from Christianity to
Islam back to Christianity). [103][104]
Qadry Ismail – former American football player. [105]
Raghib Ismail – former American football player. [106]

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 7:11pm On Jan 18, 2015
Sabatina James – (1982 in Dhedar, Pakistan) is an Austrian - Pakistani
book author. She started a new life in Vienna , changing her name and
converting to Catholicism where she was baptized in 2006. [107]
Esther John – a Pakistani Christian nurse. [108] She is counted in ten
most famous Christian martyrs of the present day.
Lina Joy – a Malay convert from Islam to Christianity. Born Azlina
Jailani in 1964 in Malaysia to Muslim parents of Javanese descent, she
converted at age 26. In 1998, she was baptized, and applied to have her
conversion legally recognized by the Malaysian courts. [109]
Don Juan of Persia – (1560–1604) a late 16th- and early 17th-century
figure in Iran and Spain . He is also known as Faisal Nazary. He was a
native of Iran , who later moved westward. He settled in Spain where
he became a Roman Catholic. [110]
K
Alina Kabaeva – a Russian gymnast. [111][112][113]
Jesse of Kakheti – a Georgian prince of the Bagrationi dynasty , son of
King Leon of Kakheti converted to Islam in the Service of the Safavid
dynasty , but returned to Orthodox Christianity after his return to
Georgia .[114]
Jesse of Kartli – a Georgian prince of the Bagrationi dynasty (from
Christianity to Islam back to Christianity). [115]
Alexander Kazembek – Russian Orientalist, historian and philologist of
Azeri origin . [116]
Mathieu Kérékou- President of Benin (from Christianity to Islam back
to Christianity). [117]
Chulpan Khamatova – Russian actress .[118][119]
Ilyas Khan – born in Britain to a Muslim family, by the age of 18 or 19,
Khan began to question his Muslim faith. Khan was attracted to the
practices of traditional Catholicism and an important contribution to
his faith was through regular attendance, over a decade prior to his
formal conversion.
Kitty Kirkpatrick – born in India and brought up as Shia Muslim.
Mekki Kuku – a Sudanese teacher condemned to death for apostasy
1998. [120][121]
Emir Kusturica – a Serbian and Yugoslavian filmmaker and actor. [122]
[123]
L
Imad ud-din Lahiz – prolific Islamic writer, preacher and Qur'anic
translator. [124]
Miguel Layún – Mexican footballer whose parents converted to
Christianity after escaping from Lebanon .
Fernão Lopes (soldier) – a 16th-century Portuguese soldier in India
who converted to Roman Catholicism .
Dr. Nur Luke – Uyghur Bible translator. [125]
M
Enrique de Malaca – Malay slave of Ferdinand Magellan , converted to
Roman Catholicism after being purchased in 1511. [126][127]
Sake Dean Mahomed – (born Sheikh Din Muhammad) an Indian
traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur who introduced the Indian take-
away curry house restaurant in Britain , and was the first Indian to
have written a book in the English language .[128][129]
Pinkan Mambo – (born Pinkan Ratnasari Mambo) Indonesian singer
converted in 2010. Decision taken after admitting she studied various
religions of the world and eventually dropped in awe of Jesus Christ .
[130][131][132]
Fadhma Aït Mansour – mother of French writers Jean Amrouche and
Taos Amrouche .[133]
Roy Marten – (born Wicasksono Abdul Salam) Indonesian actor whose
family was converted to Roman Catholicism during his childhood but
who converted converted later to Indonesian Ortodoxy in 1997. [134]
[135][136]
Abdul Masih – an Indian indigenous missionary, an ordained Anglican
and Lutheran minister. [137][138]
Josef Mässrur – (born Ghäsim Khan) missionary to Chinese Turkestan
with the Mission Union of Sweden. [139]
Rajah Matanda – also known by "Rajah Ache", the king of Maynila, a
pre-Hispanic Philippine kingdom in the northern Philippines in the Pasig
River area of the island of Luzon and one of the three kings of Manila ,
requested to be converted to Roman Catholicism amid illness, the uncle
of Rajah Suleyman .
Carlos Menem – former President of Argentina . Raised a Nusayri but
converted to Roman Catholicism, a constitutional requirement for
accessing the presidency until 1994. [140]
Mizse – last Palatine of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary in 1290. He was
born in a Muslim family in Tolna County in the Kingdom of Hungary,
but he converted to Roman Catholicism. [141]
Hajji Husman Mohamed – a former Ethiopian Muslim converted with his
family to Orthodox Christianity in 2003. [142][143]
St. George El Mozahem – a Coptic saint.[144][145][146]
Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan – last Khan of Kazan Khanate. [32]
Muhsin Muhammad – current American football player for the Carolina
Panthers , raised in a Muslim household, later converted to Christianity.
[147]
Paul Mulla – Turkish scholar and professor of Islamic Studies at the
Pontifical Oriental Institute .[148]
Sayed Mussa – (also spelled Said Musa) An Afghan citizen sentenced to
death for apostasy but released to February 2011. [149]

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 7:12pm On Jan 18, 2015
Youcef Nadarkhani – Iranian Christian pastor who has been sentenced
to death for apostasy.[150]
Nagma – Indian actress and sister to Jyothika .[151][152]
Diana Nasution – Indonesian singer, converted to Protestantism after
marriage. [153][154]
Aurelius and Natalia – (died 852) were Christian martyrs who were put
to death during the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Emir of Córdoba, and
are counted among the Martyrs of Córdoba. Aurelius was the son of a
Muslim father and a Christian mother. He was also secretly a follower
of Christianity, as was his wife Natalia, who was also the child of a
Muslim father. [155]
Marina Nemat – Canadian author of Iranian descent and former
political prisoner of the Iranian government. Born into a Christian
family, she converted to Islam in order to avoid execution but later
reverted to Christianity. [156]
Ibrahim Njoya – Bamum king; back and forth conversions from Islam
to Christianity .[157]
Nunilo and Alodia – were a pair of child martyrs from Huesca. Born of
a mixed marriage, they eschewed the Islam of their father in favor of
their mother's Christianity. [158]
Rashid Nurgaliyev – Russian politician and general convert to Russian
Orthodoxy. [159][160]
O
Malika Oufkir – a Moroccan writer and daughter of General Mohamed
Oufkir. She and her siblings are converts from Islam to Catholicism,
and she writes in her book, Stolen Lives , "we had rejected Islam, which
had brought us nothing good, and opted for Catholicism
instead." [161]
P
Shams Pahlavi – Iranian princess and the elder sister of Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi , Shah of Iran .[162]
Hamid Pourmand – former Iranian army colonel and lay leader of the
Jama'at-e Rabbani , the Iranian branch of the Assemblies of God
church in Iran .[163]
Agni Pratistha – Indonesian actress, model and former beauty queen
(elected Puteri Indonesia 2006), converted to Catholicism after
marriage, although what is initially denied rumors of conversion. [164]
[165][166]
R
Pierre Rabhi – born in Kenadsa , Algeria in 1938. Originally a Muslim, he
converted to Christianity for some years before rejecting all religions.
[167]
Daud Rahbar – Pakistani scholar of Comparative religions, composer,
short story writer, translator, philosopher, contributor to inter-
civilization dialogue, musicologist, drummer, singer and guitarist. [168]
[169]
Abdul Rahman – Afghan convert to Christianity who escaped the
death penalty because of foreign pressure. [170]
Brother Rachid – a Moroccan Christian convert from Islam . He is one
of the most outspoken converts in the world, he hosts a weekly live
call-in show on AL-Hayat channel where he compares Islam and
Christianity. [171][172]
Majeed Rashid Mohammed – a Kurdish Christian convert from Islam.
He established a network with former Kurdish Muslims with about 2,000
members today.[173]
Stefan Razvan – Gypsy prince who ruled Moldavia for six months in
1595. [174]
James Riady – Indonesian businessman, deputy chairman of the Lippo
Group , and son of Mochtar Riady . [175][176]
Emily Ruete – (born Sayyida Salme) Princess of Zanzibar and Oman .
[177][178][179]
Ibrahim Rugova – first president of Kosovo , converted to Roman
Catholicism and baptized in the name of Pierre.

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by ShakurM(m): 7:13pm On Jan 18, 2015
What can we learn from this biko?
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by holatin(m): 7:14pm On Jan 18, 2015
k so what now happens afterward
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by ammyluv2002(f): 7:18pm On Jan 18, 2015
ShakurM:
What can we learn from this biko?
I tire o
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by ShakurM(m): 7:29pm On Jan 18, 2015
ammyluv2002:
I tire o
make Op no start any interreligious wahala o
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by bjreal67(m): 7:32pm On Jan 18, 2015
How does this help or affect history...


Pls go and submit your school assignment in school and let's talk about how to move the nation forward


Joor o

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by SalC: 4:40am On Jan 19, 2015
Ifeann:
Aslan Abashidze – former leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic
in western Georgia .[6]
Basuki Abdullah – Indonesian painter converted to Roman Catholicism .
[7]
Ibrahim Abdullah – American former PLO terrorist. [8]
Saeed Abedini – an Iranian- American Christian pastor imprisoned in
Iran . [9]

Abo of Tiflis – Christian activist and the Patron Saint of the city of
Tbilisi , Georgia. [1]
Taysir Abu Saada – a former member of the PLO and the founder of
the Christian ministry Hope For Ishmael after he converted to
Christianity. He was Yasir Arafat 's personal driver. [10][11]
Abraham of Bulgaria – martyr and saint of the Russian Orthodox
Church .[12]
Rotimi Adebari - first Black mayor in Ireland.[13]
St. Adolphus – Christian martyr who was put to death along with his
brother, John, by Abd ar-Rahman II , Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy.
[14]
Leo Africanus – a Moorish diplomat and author who was baptized in the
Basilica of Saint Peter's in 1520.
Safdar Ali – former Maulvi (Cleric) from India. [15][16]
Mehmet Ali Ağca – Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist
Abdi İpekçi on 1 February 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John
Paul II on 13 May 1981. While in prison in 2007 he claimed to convert to
Christianity. [17]
Jabalah ibn al-Aiham – last ruler of the Ghassanid state in Syria and
Jordan in the 7th century AD. After the Islamic conquest of Levant he
converted to Islam in AD 638. He reverted to Christianity later on and
lived in Anatolia until he died in AD 645. [18]
Daniel Ali – an Iraqi Kurdish author, speaker and Former Kurdish
Muslim Scholar (Ulama/Mullah). In September 1995, he became a born-
again Christian and became an Iraqi Roman Catholic, and thereafter
commenced his writings on Islam. [19]
Magdi Allam (baptized as Magdi Cristiano Allam ) – Italy's most
famous Islamic affairs journalist. [4]
Zachariah Anani – former Sunni Muslim Lebanese militia fighter. [20]
Hussain Andaryas – Afghan Christian activist and tele-evangelist. [21]
Melissa Ariani – Indonesian model and presenter TV, converted to
Protestantism after marriage. [22][23]
Matthew Ashimolowo – Nigerian -born British pastor and evangelist.
[24]
Avraamy Aslanbegov – a Russian - Azeri vice-admiral and military
writer of the Russian Empire , converted to Eastern Orthodox
Christianity . [25]
Aurelius and Natalia – Christian martyrs who were put to death during
the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy. [26]
Johannes Avetaranian – (born Muhammad Shukri Efendi), Christian
missionary and Turkish descendant of Muhammad .[27]
Asmirandah - Indonesian actress, converted to Christianity after her
controversial marriage to Jonas Rivanno, Indonesian actor.
I really pity this Saeed guy who has been in detention for years now and his only crime was his conversion to christianity. I pray God to strengthen him and the Iranian government should stop detaining and torturing people for leaving Islam.
Pastor Saeed Abedini, who is 32 years old, is an Iranian Christian convert and citizen of the United States. Iranian security authorities arrested him during his trip to Iran to visit his family. He is being held in Evin prison with no time given for his release.

According to Mohabat News, Fox News said in a news report that "Pastor Saeed Abedini", who lives in the U.S. with his wife and two children, was visiting his family in Iran, when plain-clothes security authorities put him under arrest.

Saeed Abedini is a Christian convert who embraced Christ years ago in Iran.

His wife, Naghmeh Abedini, who is in the U.S. said, "When he became a Christian, he was considered a criminal in his own country."

The report goes on to say, Saeed Abedini left his wife and two children in the U.S. to travel to Iran, visit his family and continue a humanitarian effort he began years ago to build an orphanage.

As his wife says, after a short visit to a nearby country, Abedini was traveling back into Iran to catch his flight back to the U.S. when members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard stopped his bus near the Turkey-Iran border and pulled Abedini from the bus, confiscating his passport and subjecting him to intense interrogation.

After weeks under house arrest and many calls to Iran's passport control office about the status of his confiscated passport, Abedini was told that his case had been referred to the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian government's elite military force.

Parents's House Searched by Authorities

According to the report, five security authorities in plain clothes, raided Abedini's parents' home in Tehran on September 26. They thoroughly searched the house, confiscated all his personal belongings, and arrested Saeed Abedini himself.

Abedini's family says the government has demanded a 500 million Toman (Approximately 410,000 USD) bail for his release. However, once his family provided the required bail, they refused to accept the bail and said they will keep him longer. They also did not provide a convincing reason for this refusal.

Thus, Saeed Abedini still remains imprisoned in notorious Evin prison.

Pastor Abedini's attorney says, he was subjected to severe interrogations after his arrest and was threatened with death because of his conversion from Islam.

His attorney added, the authorities required him to sign an agreement in which the government would not charge him for his Christian activities, and he would be allowed to enter and exit the country so long as he ceased all official house church activities.

It is worth mentioning that the U.S. Department of State has warned Iranian-Americans against travel to Iran.

The warning, published on December 7, on the Department of State website, reads, "Some elements in Iran remain hostile to the United States. As a result, U.S. citizens may be subject to harassment or arrest while traveling or residing in Iran
http://mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5972:iranian-american-pastor-arrested-imprisoned-in-evin-prison&catid=36:iranian-christians&Itemid=279
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by malvisguy212: 7:14am On Jan 19, 2015
ShakurM:
What can we learn from this biko?
@shakurm and ammyluv2002
people need to know that Islam doctrine is evil and a way to hell, how can God promise his children hell fire?
Many ignorance Christians are being converting without knowing

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by malvisguy212: 7:17am On Jan 19, 2015
SalC:
I really pity this Saeed guy who has been in detention for years now and his only crime was his conversion to christianity. I pray God to strengthen him and the Iranian government should stop detaining and torturing people for leaving Islam.

http://mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5972:iranian-american-pastor-arrested-imprisoned-in-evin-prison&catid=36:iranian-christians&Itemid=279
God bless you for sharing.
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by SalC: 7:47am On Jan 19, 2015
malvisguy212:
God bless you for sharing.
God bless you too, all we need to do is to always pray for such people who are being persecuted for their faith and always speak against so ill treatment of christians in muslim dominated country.
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by malvisguy212: 7:51am On Jan 19, 2015
SalC:
God bless you too, all we need to do is to always pray for such people who are being persecuted for their faith and always speak against so ill treatment of christians in muslim dominated country.
you are very correct. Remain blessed.
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by PastorKun(m): 8:13am On Jan 19, 2015
@OP
This is Just a tiny tip of the iceberg, currently we have approximately 6 million muslims converting to christianity every year despite their wicked and evil apotasy laws.
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 12:18am On Jan 20, 2015
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George Weah – Liberian soccer player (from Christianity to Islam back
to Christianity). [222]
Ari Wibowo – Indonesian actor, model and singer. [223][224]
Sigi Wimala – Indonesian model and actress, converted to Catholicism
after marriage. [225][226]
Wu'erkaixi – Uyghur dissident known for his leading role during the
Tiananmen protests of 1989 .[227][228]
Ibrahim Tunggul Wulung – Indonesian evangelist and missionary. [229]
[230]
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Muley Xeque – (Arabic: ﻣﻮﻻﻱ ﺍﻟﺸﻴﺦ Mawlay al-Shaykh) was a Moroccan
prince, born in Marrakech in 1566. Exiled in Spain , he was converted to
Roman Catholicism in Madrid and was known as Philip of Africa or
Philip of Austria. [231]
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Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan – last khan of Kazan Khanate .[32]
Mosab Hassan Yousef – son of a Hamas leader.[232]
Ramzi Yousef – Al Qaeda member and the main participant in the 1993
World Trade Center bombing and The Bojinka plot .[233][234]
Nania Kurniawati Yusuf – Indonesian singer, finalist of the first
season to Indonesian Idol , 2004. [235][236]
The Clan Yusupov – noble family of Tatar descent down the Khans of
the Nogai Horde , convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the 17th
century. [237]
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Zaida of Seville – born an Iberian Muslim. When Seville fell to the
Almoravids, she fled to the protection of Alfonso VI of Castile,
becoming his mistress, converting to Christianity and taking the
baptismal name of Isabel. [238]
Asmirandah Zantman – Indonesian actress of Dutch descent converted
to the Protestant faith in December 2013. Zantman owes her
conversion to an experience of having dreamed three times of Jesus
Christ . [239][240][241][242]
Zayd Abu Zayd – the last Almohad governor of Valencia, Spain . Abu
Zayd remained a loyal ally of James I , and in 1236 he converted to
Roman Catholicism, adopting the name of Vicente Bellvis, a fact which
he however kept secret until the fall of Valencia. [243]
Saye Zerbo – President of the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina
Faso ). [244]
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 12:20am On Jan 20, 2015
SalC:
I really pity this Saeed guy who has been in detention for years now and his only crime was his conversion to christianity. I pray God to strengthen him and the Iranian government should stop detaining and torturing people for leaving Islam.

http://mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5972:iranian-american-pastor-arrested-imprisoned-in-evin-prison&catid=36:iranian-christians&Itemid=279

Its so sad but i believe God will use saeeds story to expose the disease that is islam and drive more Muslims to become ex Muslims and join the way truth and life in christ.
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 12:24am On Jan 20, 2015
ShakurM:
What can we learn from this biko?

The intention is to show Muslims that want to leave Islam that they can do it. . Millions did it last year.. many more will apostatasize this year. .

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by ShakurM(m): 1:59am On Jan 20, 2015
Ifeann:


The intention is to show Muslims that want to leave Islam that they can do it. . Millions did it last year.. many more will apostatasize this year. .
and why do they convert?
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 12:13pm On Jan 20, 2015
ShakurM:
and why do they convert?

For several reasons but the common denominator is the falsehood of Islam. ...


Muslims aren't necessarily evil,
but Islam itself and its founder the false Prophet Muhammad
certainly are evil.
I implore all Muslims to research and to find the light and leave the
wickedness that is Islam.

Watch this to enlighten yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl641IFO10g

This ex-Muslim testifies to the evils of his former religion. He is Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, and former Muslim youth leader. He is a former Muslim, converted to Christianity who is speaking from personal experience and knowledge of the evil of Islam and is thus denouncing it and
warning the children of God about the horror and evil that is spreading across the globe.

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by ShakurM(m): 2:47pm On Jan 20, 2015
Ifeann:


For several reasons but the common denominator is the falsehood of Islam. ...


Muslims aren't necessarily evil,
but Islam itself and its founder the false Prophet Muhammad
certainly are evil.
I implore all Muslims to research and to find the light and leave the
wickedness that is Islam.

Watch this to enlighten yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl641IFO10g

This ex-Muslim testifies to the evils of his former religion. He is Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, and former Muslim youth leader. He is a former Muslim, converted to Christianity who is speaking from personal experience and knowledge of the evil of Islam and is thus denouncing it and
warning the children of God about the horror and evil that is spreading across the globe.
u gimme 1 reason why Islam is evil, I give u 1million reasons it's good .. peace smiley
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by PastorKun(m): 2:52pm On Jan 20, 2015
ShakurM:
u gimme 1 reason why Islam is evil, I give u 1million reasons it's good .. peace smiley

Kindly state the 1million reasons please.
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by ShakurM(m): 2:55pm On Jan 20, 2015
PastorKun:


Kindly state the 1million reasons please.
Gimme ur 1reason
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 9:34pm On Jan 20, 2015
ShakurM:
u gimme 1 reason why Islam is evil, I give u 1million reasons it's good .. peace smiley
Ok i accept your challenge..
Islam is EVIL because it allows sex with children. .Your prophet slept with a 9 year old child. .if you don't give me 1 million reasons of ur own on this thread showing islam is good then u have condemned islam as evil.

Here is proof from your sources.
Aisha was six or seven years old, as well as his consummation of that marriage when she was nine:

Sahih al-Bukhari 3896—Narrated Hisham’s father: Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Al-Madina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he wrote the marriage (wedding) contract with Aishah when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consummated that marriage when she was nine years old.

Sahih al-Bukhari 5158—Narrated Urwa: The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).

Sahih Muslim 3310—Aisha reported: Allah’s Apostle married me when I was six years old, and I was admitted to his house when I was nine years old.

Sahih Muslim 3311—Aisha reported that Allah’s Apostle married her when she was seven years old, and she was taken to his house as a bride when she was nine, and her dolls were with her; and when he (the Holy Prophet) died she was eighteen years old.

Sunan Abu Dawud 2116—Aishah said: The Apostle of Allah married me when I was seven years old. (The narrator Sulaiman said: Or six years.) He had intercourse with me when I was nine years old.


Shalom

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by tartar9(m): 9:46pm On Jan 20, 2015
ShakurM:
Gimme ur 1reason
dont waste your time argueing with them.

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Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Anas09: 9:50pm On Jan 20, 2015
We know how jesus died, shamefully on the cross. How many knows how Muhammed died? Now, here is how he died. He died on top of Aisha having sex. That sex maniac is the man Muslims r killing pipo for.
Re: Notable Converts To Christianity From Islam by Ifeann(f): 9:59pm On Jan 20, 2015
Anas09:
We know how jesus died, shamefully on the cross. How many knows how Muhammed died? Now, here is how he died. He died on top of Aisha having sex. That sex maniac is the man Muslims r killing pipo for.

Please don't say things without proof. . As much as i detest islam the truth has to be said at all times. Mohammed didn't die having sex with Aisha, he died after suffering for 4 years due to eating goat meat poisoned by a jewish woman..

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