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Muslims are Converting to Christianity in Record Numbers
National Catholic Register ^ | Patti Armstrong

Posted on 01/26/2018 1:04:07 PM PST by 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.”

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To: Elsie

The hypocrisy is staggering, is nit not.

They can disown him but we can’t?


1,001 posted on 02/12/2018 11:56:01 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: terycarl

You need to get your money back.


1,002 posted on 02/12/2018 11:57:42 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: terycarl; metmom
Yeah, right....dream along with me!!!

No dreaming bro. You can scoff all you want. I am not really all that concerned with it. It was a beautiful day when I left the Catholic Church, and equally beautiful when others leave it too. 😄😀😇😁😆👍

1,003 posted on 02/12/2018 1:02:54 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: terycarl; metmom

I disagree with your interpretations bro. Did you have a priest interpret for you? I didn’t need one, since I do YOPIOS.


1,004 posted on 02/12/2018 1:05:09 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: terycarl
..so you say ...

Quit trying to put words into others mouths.

Thank you.

1,005 posted on 02/12/2018 5:09:50 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mark17
What? Presumption is not a sin?

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not. Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

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Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?


Luke, Catholic chapter twelve, Protestant verses thirty five to forty eight,
Hebrews, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verses one to four,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

1,006 posted on 02/12/2018 6:55:05 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981

As usual, you post scripture, not even remotely related to the subject at hand, with no comment. No wonder I don’t hardly ever read them. I have assurance of salvation. If you don’t, oh well, not my problem. I will continue to have assurance, no matter what anyone may think about it. In fact, I am beyond caring what anyone thinks about it.


1,007 posted on 02/12/2018 7:02:16 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Mark17
As usual, you post scripture, not even remotely related to the subject at hand, with no comment. No wonder I don’t hardly ever read them. I have assurance of salvation. If you don’t, oh well, not my problem. I will continue to have assurance, no matter what anyone may think about it. In fact, I am beyond caring what anyone thinks about it.

Setting at naught the very words of the LORD does not make them of no effect; "Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?"
1,008 posted on 02/13/2018 3:26:03 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981
Setting at naught the very words of the LORD does not make them of no effect; "Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?"

Call no woman Mother of GOD.

1,009 posted on 02/13/2018 3:40:39 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: af_vet_1981; Elsie
Setting at naught the very words of the LORD does not make them of no effect; "Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?"

Pay attention to His parables. Assurance of salvation. YOPIOS. I believe both. If you don’t, that is your problem, not mthe be.

Elsie, that’s a good one. 😀😄

1,010 posted on 02/13/2018 7:28:28 AM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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