Posted on 11/12/2025 11:33:54 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
One of the most unexpected things I stumbled across during a visit to Strasbourg, France, was a group of Protestant Christians meeting in the basement of a Catholic Church. Most of them were from Iran. And almost all of them were former Muslims.
Muslims in France aren’t a surprise. They make up an estimated 10 percent of the country’s population, and ongoing migration remains the biggest factor driving Muslim growth. But Muslims becoming Christians in France? That was something I hadn’t heard about.
So I traveled to Strasbourg to meet an American missionary reaching Muslim immigrants by planting a French church. “We came here with the idea that our goal wasn’t to reach Muslims,” Justin Dodson said. “Our goal was to help French people reach Muslims.”
It’s a lofty goal, considering the number of evangelical Christians in France is about 1 percent. In the city of Strasbourg, there are actually more mosques than evangelical churches.
But, so far, the church that Justin leads has seen progress. In the back room of a cozy coffee shop, a few dozen people meet for worship on Sundays. About 60 percent are French, and 40 percent are from other nations and backgrounds—including Muslim backgrounds…
And he introduced me to Mohammed...
Mohammed isn’t a name you’d expect for a Christian. But this particular Mohammed didn’t expect to end up following Jesus. Before he became pastor of the small church gathering in Strasbourg, Mohammed was a Muslim, ignoring a Bible sitting on his shelf in Iran.
His cousin had given him a copy of the Bible in 2014, but Mohammed didn’t pick it up for two years. When he finally did, he opened to the book of John…
(Excerpt) Read more at radical.net ...
Enjoy the bacon!
Very similar phenomena in Germany. Many Muslim migrants are embracing Christianity.
I’ve read articles about this. These people are converting to Christianity as that religion represents freedom.
Refreshing to see it going the other direction for a change!
Falsani: Who’s Jesus to you?
(He laughs nervously)
OBAMA: Right. Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.
And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.
They better be careful - apostasy is a capital crime in Islam.
No Christian EVER would slip up and say ‘my Muslim faith’ as Obozo did with Little Georgie Stephanapoulos. NO ONE.
May these muslims have come to true saving faith in Christ for salvation - and not just joined a church.
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