Islam, SVM News, 1 January, 2007: Over a million Muslim converts to Christianity celebrated Christmas throughout the world. According the reports of the various missionary organisations and news medias.
The Salem Voice Ministries evangelising 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’. Thease 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 alongwith 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, Bengladesh and Maldievs.
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. But last year they sold 600,000 copies, plus 750,000 copies of the Bible on tape (in Arabic) and about a half million copies of the Arabic New Testament. “Egyptians are increasingly hungry for God’s Word,” an Egyptian Christian leader told.
‘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 Afganistan 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 Kazakistan and no christians in Uzbekistan, but now more than 15,000 in Kazakistan 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 Aljazeera 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.
To reach the Salem Voice Ministries: http://salemvoice.org
Pastor Paul Ciniraj,
Salem Voice Ministries.
amfortas said,
But the icing on the cake is the fulfillment of ‘Prophesy’.
“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”
Vey handy all those visions. Can I see one? I can’t see it, but I can smell a rat.
January 1, 2007 at 1:02 am
chas said,
January 1, 2007 at 2:16 am
DrDamage said,
By making Iraq the primary battleground and tempting jihadi into murdering Arabs and Muslims rather than more deserving (to middle eastern sensibilities in any case) white folk, George Bush has indulged in a grand gamble: will middle eastern disgust with the jihadi destroy the terrorist cause before the US is forced to withdraw from Iraq by political pressure at home.
This war can still be won and the Iraqi people can still be free. Those who claim that the war in Iraq is already lost more than likely know this and fear the political consequences of Bush winning a victory where they predicted inevitable defeat.
January 1, 2007 at 3:25 am
sgmlee said,
January 1, 2007 at 6:38 am
mazza said,
January 1, 2007 at 10:47 am
thurston861 said,
The ways of the sexual-humanists, wahabists, and Shariafacists will all fail. The Sexual-humanists have no means to intellectually engage the other two forces to remove the faith of their opponents and eliminate the intellectual validity of their perverted belief of proper means of redemption.
Only an overwhelming belief system that truly values the individuality of man by a true rule of law can intellectually defeat the insanity of the perverted belief and redemption system of the false faith will bring Freedom, and peace to all people.
I pray this report is true, because the sexual-humanist culture of the West has NO HOPE verses this small influental and motivated force of the Sharia Facists.
Individual motivations that make up the violently agressive culture must the radically altered in order for there to be a victory in the war against RIghts (WHoops there I go again, I mean Terror).
There is only one story that I know of that creates radical change in human beings. There is only one story that changed 11 men from their faulty ways and lead them to go into all the world and suffer under torture seperately for their testimony.
Now, if something can be done to save these new Christians from Revelution Theology which denies the Right of Man as revealed by the Commandments and the Torah Law.
January 1, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Squiggy said,
Well, yes, what is happening in the Middle East exactly follows Biblical prophecy, but that’s probably just a coincidence. Just as the four hundred plus prophecies that Jesus fulfilled were also coincidences. You shouldn’t worry about it, I’m sure.
Not.
January 1, 2007 at 7:36 pm
amfortas said,
January 1, 2007 at 8:11 pm