Muslims are Converting to Christianity in Record Numbers

National Catholic Register ^ | Patti Armstrong

[GoldenState_Rose]

We are in a time of the first ever mass conversions of Muslims,” Father Mitch Pacwa SJ told me in a phone interview. “God is doing a mighty work among them.”

Pacwa said that mass conversions are happening even in very fundamentalist countries. There is rapidly growing number of conversions especially on the edges of the Muslim world in the western and southern parts of Africa, he said. “Africa is now growing predominantly Christian despite crackdowns,” Pacwa said.

Some of the noteworthy countries he mentioned include Iran, reported to have 3 million Christians, and Indonesia with reports of 2 million a year converting.

“In Mongolia, the president opened the country to Christians and there’s even an archbishop,” Pacwa said. “They built a Catholic school there too. If I was younger, I would have gone.” He said that the desire for a Western education was the impetus to open up the country to the Catholic Church.

There are even conversions happening in many strict Muslim countries, according to Pacwa. He did not want to go on record with particulars for fear of increased retribution. Mass conversions are also being reported among refugees that are filling up the Christian churches left empty by Europeans. Many wonder if those are authentic conversions or just a response to improving their chances for amnesty, but time will tell.

Signs of this conversion are showing up in the U.S. too, Pacwa said. “I was about to celebrate Mass at a Maronite church in San Diego and I said hi to a man who introduced himself as Achmad. I asked if he was a Christian. He said: ‘Yes, I was recently baptized.’ He said he from Morocco. Christians do not have the name Ahmad—that’s a form of Mohammad.”

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Amen sister!
22 years ago I left the Roman Catholic Church because the Lord loved me so much that He had somebody point out the error of my ways through Holy Scripture.

A dear sister in Christ had this as her “tagline” a few years ago. It’s the best one I’ve ever seen!

“Jesus + something = NOTHING, Jesus + nothing = Everything”

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Amen!

Childlike faith spoken of in Matthew 18:3.

[Mark17]

The basic fact that this thread is as long as it is due to disagreements over John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10, Acts 16:31, and John 14:6 shows exactly what you & I are talking about.

Yep. These threads get too long, and we are still trying to figure out what the meaning of the word “is” is. I have no problem understanding the verses you mentioned. I didn’t understand when I was a Catholic, because I had no spiritual discernment at all.
The preaching of the cross, really WAS foolishness to me. When I was born from above, and left the Catholic Church in 1970, then, the blinders were removed, and I began to grasp the true Gospel, and abandoned the false Gospel that I had been involved in.
I was at Mountain Home at the time. Some guys accused me of “getting religion” cuz I was shipping out for Vietnam. The truth was, I got mercifully saved, before I got orders for Vietnam. I managed to survive that. 👍😁😇 and I escaped this. 🔥 Others say we use “religion” as a crutch. If one wants to consider saving faith in Christ as a crutch, have at it. 👍

[Mark17]

Yes, all those “I” statements, remind me of another individual, who made one too many “I” statements, and he, and his home boys, were tossed out on their proverbial ears. 👋👎👽

[aMorePerfectUnion]

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[x_plus_one]

Roman Catholicism teaches that Mary is a Co-Redemptrix upon whom we can cast all of our cares and petitions.

Prove it.

put your money where your mouth is.

[bboop]

HereIn, it is exactly that - the Lord’s call who is saved.

This in-fighting is destructive, imho. It is certainly not uplifting - just fighting the Reformation fights all over again. There are plenty of enemies outside the walls, are there not? But we choose denominational in-fighting? On a Sunday? It’s very poor, imho.

[Freee-dame]

Roman Catholicism teaches that Mary is a Co-Redemptrix upon whom we can cast all of our cares and petitions. Some Roman Catholic writers even say Mary is necessary for salvation....that without Mary's help you cannot come to Christ.

Please list a few of these Roman Catholic writers. Where did you hear about this concept about Mary? It is definitely not the teaching of the Catholic Church. I find it interesting that some people, uneducated about the teachings of the Catholic Church, feel free to speak so definitively about something that is factually untrue.

[bboop]

FReepers - you know that question: “Would anyone know I am a Christian by spending time with me?” (to paraphrase). This discussion is anything but Christian, imho. If Christ were on this thread, would you post the same?

[metmom]

It took all of 3 seconds to google it and find some links.

From the Catechism of the Catholic church....

Mary Co-Redemptrix

http://catholicism.org/mary-co-redemptrix.html

And then there's this from the CCC.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a9p6.htm

969 “This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation .... Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.”510

Names of God from the Bible. Compare them to the names given to Mary in the above prayer.

Jesus

Hope (our) - 1 Timothy 1:1

Counselor - Isaiah 9:6

Advocate - 1 John 2:1

Mediator - 1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 12:24

Holy Spirit

Comforter - John 14:26

Helper – John 14:16

This is worship of Mary if ever there was.....Attributing to her the attributes of God is idolatry.

[metmom]

You mean the Jesus who cleared the Temple with a whip He made with His own hands?

The Jesus who called the pharisees and religious leaders of the day hypocrites because of their adherence to tradition and allowing it to supplant the Law?

That Jesus?

[metmom]

Please see post 370.

[x_plus_one]

Yep

[Elsie]

Jesus never said eating His flesh and blood is how one becomes born again.

Of COURSE not!

It's how you STAY born again!!

--Catholic_Wannabe_Dude(Hail Mary)

[aMorePerfectUnion]

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[Elsie]

Elsie, dear, due to the FACT that most people on the planet, Christians included, refer to their male parent, regardless of their native language, as “FATHER”, at your age it should have occurred even to you that there is something seriously wrong with your own private interpretation of the Good Book

Jesus; dear; we can disobey what you said 'cause the words mean something different to us Catholics.

[Elsie]

No PROT explanation is going to cut it for a TBC.

Rome has spoken and you can take THAT to the BANK!

[Elsie]

Prove it.
put your money where your mouth is.

Sigh...

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Caution!  The following just MIGHT be Catholic teaching...

 

 

 

 

When therefore we read in the writings of Saint Bernard, Saint Bernardine, Saint Bonaventure, and others that all in heaven and on earth, even God himself, is subject to the Blessed Virgin, they mean that the authority which God was pleased to give her is so great that she seems to have the same power as God. Her prayers and requests are so powerful with him that he accepts them as commands in the sense that he never resists his dear mother’s prayer because it is always humble and conformed to his will.... St. Louis de Montfort, in Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, #27, 246.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/Montfort/TRUEDEVO.HTM

 

 

Ambrose,  Anselm,   Antoninus,   Athanasius,  Bernadine,  Blosius,  Bonaventure,   St. John Damascene,
Ephem,  Fulgetius,  Guerric,  Richard of Laurence,  Father Nicholas Gruner,  St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Father Stefano Manelli

[Elsie]

It is definitely not the teaching of the Catholic Church.

Then the Roman Catholic Church sure should try to put down this FALSE teaching that PERMEATES it's members thinking!

What?

Co-redemptrix??

At Rick's???

[Elsie]

... the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.