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I found this of interest from YouTube...


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Muslim clerics in the Middle East and North Africa are leaving Islam for Christianity, according to Father Zakaria Boutros.

Father Zakaria is an Egyptian Coptic priest who was kicked out of his country for converting Muslims to Christ. Today he has a ministry to the Muslim world through his satellite TV broadcast, 'Truth Talk.'

Broadcast daily into the Middle East, the program challenges Muslims to examine their faith and encourages them to discuss issues in an Internet chat room on Pal Talk.

Watch the interview to learn how those broadcasts are leading Muslim clerics to Christ.

Original source : http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/35307.aspx

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List of Some of the Former Muslim Imams, Mullahs, Dawah Preachers Who embraced Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

Dr.Mark Gabriel - Former Muslim Imam
Hamran Ambrie - Indonesian Ex-Muslim Priest
El-Faqi, an ex-Imam and lawyer
Hajji Husman Mohamed - a former ethiopian Muslim Imam
Mohammed Amin - Former Ethiopian Islamic Cleric
El-Akkad - Former Muslim Preacher, Egypt
Mullah Assad Ullah - Former mullah, Afganistan
Indonesian Imam Left Islam, He also led 3000 Moslems to Christ
Sudan: Moslem Imam converts to Christianity
Rev. Mawlawi Dr. Imad ud-Din Lahiz - Prolific Islamic Writer, Preacher, Quranic Translator
Khalif Majid Hassan - Former Islamic Preacher, Minister in the Nation of Islam
Jeremiah Fard Muhammad - Muslim minister, now Christian evangelist
Saleh Hussaini - Former Nigerian Muslim Cleric
Sam Solomon - a former Muslim scholar
Yusuf Roni - Former Islamic Dawah Missionary
Jamal Zarka - Former Muslim Imam, Now Evangelist
Sheikh Mohamed Mansour - Prominent Egyptian Muslim Sheikh and Islamic Scholar
Hamza - former Islamic scholar
Timothy Abraham - Former Muslim preacher, Fundamentalist.
Daniel Shayestah- Former koranic teacher, scholar
Maulvi Safdar Ali - Former Maulvi(Cleric) from India
Ahmed Abdullahi - former muslim cleric
Emmanuel (formerly Mohammed) - Former Muslim Scholar
Zak Gariba - former Muslim Imam
Hicham Chehab - Former Lebanese Muslim Preacher turned Militant turned Islamic Theologian
Mario Joseph (Moulvi Sulaiman) - former Muslim cleric - India

Some if not most or all of the priests in the Indonesian Orthodox Church had a Muslim past. Even Archimandrite Fr. Daniel was born a Muslim.

I would be curious to see how many if any of these converts have turned or end up turning to the Catholic Church or Orthodoxy... The feel I get from the video is that these folks generally are of the Evangelical variety...

I wonder if for some Muslims that live with knowledge of minority Christian communities near or around them, (of the Catholic or Orthodox variety) prejudices against the ethnicity or other factors of those communities help in making Evangelical Protestantism more attractive...? Maybe they feel that Evangelicalism transcends the factionalism by going for the "Just Jesus" approach?

Conversely maybe the Evangelicals, whose families and family homes aren't in the surrounding villages to be struck in retaliation, are simply more bold about "witnessing"?

This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately as I hear news reports here and there of Evangelical success in sub-saharan Africa. One wonders if one of these erstwhile converts will see a Scott Hahn rise from their ranks...

Hi, You both might be interested in this interview Archimandrite Fr. Daniel http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/01newstucture/pagesen/news05/archdaniil.html

Peace,
Indigo

Father Zakaria on YouTube:
Jesus Christ IS God [youtube.com]

I doubt that there will be anyone from this list, but I know that Fr. Daniel was one of our "Scott Hahns". He was Muslim > Protestant > Orthodox.

Scott Hahn would have doubted he would be Scott Hahn at one point!

I have heard Father Daniel's story on tape a few years ago... It was a recorded speech - I am not sure who put it out...

Very heartening.

May they convert in the thousands!
May God give them the grace and courage.
Stephanos I