‘Since I became a Christian I fear no one’: Refugee explains mass conversions from Islam
RT.com
7 Jun, 2016
More and more Muslim refugees have been converting to Christianity in Europe, according to reports from churches. One of the new converts told RT: “I have been spat on, told that I’ve betrayed Islam, but through what I’ve learned I can forgive them.”
In Austria there have been at least 300 applications for adult christenings in the first three months of 2016 alone, with up to 70% of those said to be refugees, the Guardian reported.
At Berlin’s Trinity church the congregation has recently grown from 150 to almost 700, the newspaper said.
In Hamburg more than 80 Muslim refugees from Iran and Afghanistan converted to Christianity and were baptized last week alone, German magazine Stern reported.
“I’ve been spat on, told that I’ve betrayed Islam. But through what I’ve learned, I can forgive them,” one man who was recently baptized a Christian told RT in Hamburg.
“Since I became a Christian I fear no one,” a young woman added.
Among the most popular reasons behind the conversion is faith in a new religion, triggered by “lack of freedom” in Islam, and gratitude to Christians offering help to refugees fleeing war-torn countries.
“I’ve been looking all my life for peace and happiness, but in Islam, I have not found it,” Shima, an Iranian refugee, told Stern magazine. “To be a Christian means happiness to me,” she added.
“In Islam, we always lived in fear. Fear God, fear of sin, fear of punishment. However, Christ is a God of love,” another Iranian refugee, Solmaz, told the German daily.
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