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by | May 15, 2013

Son of Imam becomes underground pastor

By Corey Bailey

Hope in the darkness

Hope in the darkness

Masud grew up in a strict Muslim home in a remote part of Bangladesh. Not only was his family strict, but his father was also an Imam.

Masud grew up with full knowledge of the Quran and considered himself to be a radical Muslim. As he grew, however, he began to wonder about the Jesus he read about in the Quran and asked his father many questions: “Who is Jesus? Is the Quran true? Is the Bible true? The Quran says we must study all the books that came before the Torah.  Why don’t we study these?

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by | February 6, 2013

Arab training camp teaches love, not hate

By Bill Giarratana

SD chip with teaching materials

SD chip with teaching materials

Nestled in the beautiful countryside of Spain is an Arab training camp. Not the kind of camp you have recently heard of coming out of the Arab world, but a training camp that empowers Arab Christian nationals, equipping them with the mighty Word of God.

“It is more like a school than a camp,” explained ‘Stephen,’ the Director of Training. “Over 100 students come here annually from all over the Arab world for intensive training in Church planting and evangelism.”

For the past two years, the Digital Bible Society has been providing this facility with audio Bibles, as well as hundreds of hours of gospel films and videos — all in the Arabic language of the students and loaded as data files onto an SD Microchip. This SD Microchip, which is about the size of your thumb nail, is the ideal ministry tool for these students to bring God’s Word back to their respected countries where the Bible is often outlawed and church planting and evangelism are forbidden.

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by | August 30, 2012

Helping Muslims understand the Trinity

By Mark Ellis and Abd ul-Masih

Father, Son and Holy Spirit

Most Muslims consider the idea of the Trinity to be grossly idolatrous, but there is a way to handle their objections.

First of all, make sure they understand the Trinity doesn’t consist of God, Mary, and Jesus. It may sound inane, but it’s a misconception that’s more widespread than you might believe.

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by | August 21, 2012

Muslim woman from Morocco found God’s loving heart in France

By Mark Ellis

Marrakech, Morocco

She hungered for a personal relationship with God, but her attempts to follow all the rituals and practices of Islam left her empty. During college studying in France, she found a loving God who satisfied her deepest yearnings.

“As a child and as a teenager I truly believed Islam was from God,” says Wafa, who grew up in a secular Muslim family in Morocco. “I truly believed Muhammad was a prophet from God and that he was the best prophet,” she notes. “I had high esteem for Islam and for Muslims.”

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by | August 9, 2012

Iranians flock to Jesus in Germany

Fourteen Iranians converted to Christianity on August 5 in the same church in Berlin. Fifty Iranian Christian converts attended the

Baptism in Germany

ceremony, in addition to fifty other German attendees.

One of the Iranian attendees, Farid Shad, told a reporter of Spiegel Online that although he had become a Christian in Iran, he had never attended a church there because of fear of the security authorities. He said, “We used to gather secretly in private homes to read the Bible or practice our faith. We were gathering there and worshiping.”

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by | August 6, 2012

She hated Muslims, then God changed her heart

By Mark Ellis

Image from civil war in Beirut, Lebanon

As a Christian growing up in war-torn Beirut, Lebanon, she hated Muslims with a passion. But the power of God’s Word broke through her bitterness and she discovered a love she never knew.

“I came to know the Lord when I was five-years-old in Sunday School,” recalls Samya Johnson, cofounder of Call of Love Ministries. Her parents were first-generation born-again Christians. At a summer Bible camp program, she learned the crucifixion story.

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by | July 30, 2012

Smuggling Bibles by camel in restricted countries

By Paul Haralan Popov, President – Door of Hope International

Bible smuggler

I met Musaf (not his real identity) while ministering to underground believers in the sweltering desert temperatures of Africa through a good friend who knew his struggles and asked me to help. The sun beat down with an intense heat as I waited at the designated meeting place. I was a little apprehensive. Musaf, from what I was told, liked to do things differently, his own way.

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by | July 11, 2012

The CIA spy inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guard who found Jesus

By Mark Ellis

Reza Khalili in disguise

 

As a member of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard he witnessed horrific acts that caused him to question his faith in Islam and the regime he served. After he became a CIA spy and later escaped to the West, he found a new revolutionary to follow who offered a love that overwhelmed his soul.

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by | May 8, 2012

Dreams of Jesus didn’t stop a troubled American’s turn to Islam, but God’s Word drew him to the light

By Mark Ellis

Antonio Santana

 

His desperate need to find God – any god – landed him in a local mosque. Even some vivid dreams from Jesus failed to stop his surrender to Islam, but the power of God’s Word finally won his heart.

“I was the product of a one-night stand,” says Antonio Santana, who never knew his biological father. He and his brother and sisters grew up with minimal family structure and he always felt disconnected from his stepfather. “Both my parents always worked, and I could do whatever I wanted to do.”

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by | January 16, 2012

His encounter with Jesus began in the mosque

By Mark Ellis

madrasa in Pakistan

 

Like other boys in his Pashtun tribe along the Pakistan-Afghan border, he was sent to a madrasa at age four, where he was compelled to read, recite and memorize the Koran.

“The children mimic or copy the mullah, who is very heavy-handed. You have to memorize out of fear,” says John Taimoor, founder of The Crossbearers, a ministry devoted to presenting biblical Christianity within an Islamic context.

By age 14 he was reading Shakespeare and searching for heroes, when he stumbled across the name ‘Isa,’ the Arabic name for Jesus in the Koran.  “I read the name of Jesus and became curious,” he says.  “The Lord reached me right in the mosque.”

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