Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "النمو السكاني للمسيحيين" in Arabic language version.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء متعددة: قائمة المؤلفين (link)There are no official statistics, but leaders say there are about 50,000 Moroccan Christians, most of them from the Protestant Evangelical tradition.
{{استشهاد بخبر}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: لغة غير مدعومة (link){{استشهاد بخبر}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: لغة غير مدعومة (link)A study of the religious lives of university students in Beijing published in a mainland Chinese academic journal Science and Atheism in 2013 showed Christianity to be the religion that interested students most and the most active on campuses. It concluded there was a "religious fever" in society and "religious forces were infiltrating colleges." With the support of "overseas religious forces," it said, there was a rapid growth in Christianity among university students. It said Christian fellowships on campus mostly refused to succumb to the leadership of the state-backed churches and thus posed "a problem" in the government's administration of religious affairs.
{{استشهاد بخبر}}: تعارض مسار مع وصلة (مساعدة)Since the 1960s, there has been a substantial increase in the number of Muslims who have converted to Christianity
estimated that over 2 million Javanese Muslims became Christians between 1965 and 1971, and Pentecostal churches gained the most members
Between 1966 and 1976, almost two million ethnic Javanese, most from abangan Islamic backgrounds, converted to Christianity.
Simultaneously, a considerable number of muslims (about 2 million) converted to Christianity and Hinduism, a most unique event.
It estimated the Afghan Christian community ranges from 500 to 8,000 people. For all practical purposes, there are no native Afghan Christians; they are all converts from Islam who worship in secret to avoid being killed for apostasy..
Harussani Zakaria, publicly fulminated that up to 260,000 Muslims in Malaysia had left the faith and converted to Christianity
Given the sensitivity of religious conversion in Singapore, reliable data about religious conversions of ethnic groups is almost non-existent. Some Muslim organizations that deal with conversion and problems of Muslim converts, however, estimated that about 100 Malays converted to Christianity within the last decade or so.
Many of the Druze have chosen to deemphasize their ethnic identity, and some have officially converted to Christianity.
some Christians (mostly from the Orthodox faith), as well as Druze, converted to Protestantism...
...The Georgian government, led by Zviad Gamsakhurdia, embraced Orthodox Christianity and implemented a policy to reconvert Adjara to Christianity..
..a rising number of Chinese are converting to Christianity, mainly to Roman Catholicism and Protestantism..
..While Catholicism continued to grow at the same rate as China's population, Protestantism witnessed a phenomenal expansion—from 1 million in 1949 to at 30 million by the end of the centuray..
{{استشهاد بكتاب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: علامات ترقيم زائدة (link)..grow rapidly, and younger, well-educated believers accounted for an increasing proportion of new converts..
... .Between two or three million Muslims converted to Christianity after the massacres of the communists in Indonesia in 1965.
... evidence confirms reports that Christians in Indonesia's Maluku Islands have been forced to convert to Islam under the threat of death...
. boasted some 140,000 Indian converts. ..
P.19: A part of the Muslims in emigration are directly or indirectly induced to convert to Catholicism or Orthodoxy
In the Netherlands, thousands of Iranian Muslim migrants and refugees are converting to Christianity, despite conversion from Islam being considered apostasy in Iran and punishable by death.
Converts to Christianity tend to come from the young, educated, English-speaking Chinese generation
{{استشهاد}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch (مساعدة).{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: لغة غير مدعومة (link)In the West, experts estimate thousands of Muslims switch to Christianity every year but keep their conversions secret for fear of retribution. "Converts from Islam, especially those who become involved in Christian ministries, often use assumed names, or only their first names, in order to protect themselves and their families," writes Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a Washington-based terrorism analyst in Commentary.
Finally, during this century there has been a rapid growth in the number of Chinese Christians. Very few Chinese were Christians at the turn of the century. Today Christians constitute approximately 10 or 15 percent of the Chinese population in Indonesia, and probably a higher percentage among the young. Conversion of Chinese to Chris tianity accelerated in the 1960s, especially in East Java, and for Indonesia as a whole the proportion of Chinese who were Catholics rose from 2 percent in 1957 to 6 percent in 19.
P.25: Finally, during this century there has been a rapid growth in the number of Chinese Christians. Very few Chinese were Christians at the turn of the century. 22 Christians today make up roughly 10 or 15 percent of the Chinese population in Indonesia, 23 and perhaps a higher proportion among the young. The conversion of Chinese to Christianity accelerated in the 1960s, particularly in East Java, and for Indonesia as a whole, the proportion of Chinese who were Catholic rose from 2 percent in 1957 to 6 percent in 1969 (24). locally born) Chinese. This growth appears to be a response to intense missionary efforts and a search for acceptance and identity in Indonesian society through the adoption of a more acceptable and less "Chinese" religion25 which at the same time removes suspicion of sympathy with the communists.
{{استشهاد بكتاب}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch (مساعدة)Thousands of refugees in Germany are converting from Islam to Christianity, although it could carry a huge personal risk for them. Independent churches are especially seeing many new converts.
Pentecostalism grew at 2.2 percent each year, mainly by conversion. Half of developing-world Christians are Pentecostal, evangelical or charismatic.
{{استشهاد بخبر}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: لغة غير مدعومة (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: لغة غير مدعومة (link)Behind the trend: High birthrates and conversions in the global South.
Christianity. Growth rate: 1.38 percent. Adherents: 2.2 billion. Behind the trend: High birthrates and conversions in the global South.
{{استشهاد بخبر}}: |الأخير= باسم عام (help)صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء متعددة: قائمة المؤلفين (link) صيانة الاستشهاد: علامات ترقيم زائدة (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: تحقق من التاريخ في: |تاريخ الوصول= (مساعدة) p. 30. Quick data from the 2016 barometer of Catalonia نسخة محفوظة 20 أكتوبر 2018 على موقع واي باك مشين..{{استشهاد بخبر}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: لغة غير مدعومة (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: |الأخير= باسم عام (help)Pentecostalism arguably has been the fastest growing religious movement in the contemporary world
This socio-demographic characterizes Christian converts as mostly .. (2) well-educated, (3) belonging in higher-income brackets, (4) switching their religion between ten and twenty-nine years of age
Between 1966 and 1976, some 2 million ethnic Javanese from nominally Islamic backgrounds converted to Christianity
Although approximately 20,000 Muslims convert to Christianity annually, ... In 2010 were approximately 180,000 and about 130,000 Iranian Americans who converted from Islam to Christianity.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link)Many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: تحقق من قيمة |مسار أرشيف= (مساعدة) وتحقق من قيمة |مسار= (مساعدة)Many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch (مساعدة){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link)Shay Khatiri of Johns Hopkins University wrote last year about Iran that "Islam is the fastest shrinking religion there, while Christianity is growing the fastest."
In 2017, the Finnish Immigration Service received approximately 1,000 asylum applications and appeals based on conversion from Islam to Christianity.
Conservative estimates place the number of Christians in Iran between 500,000 to 800,000 believers, but others claim there are more than one million. Traditionally, Christian families amount to around 250,000, while the remainder consists of converts from Islam. Most converts from Islam belong to the underground Protestant house-church movement, which Iran considers to be illegal. Meanwhile, according to Islamic and Iranian law, conversion from Islam is a capital offense.
Christianity has flourished in post-colonial Singapore, especially attracting conversions from among young, urbanized and English- educated.
there is an estimated 20,000 to 100,000 evangelical Christians in Algeria, who practice their faith in mainly unregistered churches in the Kabyle region
it is estimated that as many as 91,000 Muslims across Bangladesh have converted to Christianity in the last six years.
Open Doors, interviewed by the UK Home Office on 8 August 2017, stated that many converts do not publicly report their faith due to persecution, so it is difficult to record the exact numbers of Iranian Christian converts. Open Doors believes the number to be 800,000, although this is a conservative estimate. Other estimates put the number between 400,000-500,000 right up to 3 million... A March 2019 US Congressional Research Service report on Iran put the 300,000
Over 20,000 Kashmiri Muslims are reported to have converted to Christianity since the inception of militancy in 1990.
P.15: Chiaramonte 2016), that it is young people in particular who convert to Christianity in today's Iran
In his research article, Miller (2015, p. 71) points to an anonymous, but the well-informed source that estimated that in 2010, there were about 100,000 converts in Iran... estimated the number of Christian ethnic Persians to be about 175,000. these were claimed to be converts of Shiite Muslim background.
P.9: Iranian Christian converts in Britain form three distinguishable groups depending on where they've converted: 1.Those who converted in Iran 2.Those who converted in transit (mostly Turkey) 3.Those who converted in Britain
More tangibly, figures published in January 2004 in Turkey's mainstream Milliyet newspaper claimed that 35,000 Muslims, the vast majority of them in Istanbul, had converted to Christianity in 2003. While impossible to confirm (the Turkish government does not release these figures), the rate of conversion, according to Christian leaders in Turkey, is on the rise.
At the heart of this religious resurgence are Islam and Pentecostalism, a branch of Protestant Christianity. Islam grew at an annual average of 1.9 percent between 2000 and 2017, mainly as the result of a high birth rate. Pentecostalism grew at 2.2 percent each year, mainly by conversion. Half of developing-world Christians are Pentecostal, evangelical or charismatic (all branches of the faith emphasize the authority of the Bible and the need for a spiritual rebirth). Why are people so attracted to it?.
The 2006 Gallup poll, however, disclosed that an astounding 12 per cent of Japanese who claim a religion are now Christian, making six per cent of the entire nation Christian.
One of the most significant transformations in twentieth-century Christianity is the emergence and development of Pentecostalism. With over five hundred million followers, it is the fastest-growing movement in the world. An incredibly diverse movement, it has influenced many sectors of Christianity, flourishing in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and having an equally significant effect on Canada.
Reports of widespread conversions of Muslims to Christianity come from regions as disparate as Algeria, Albania, Syria, and Kurdistan. Countries with the largest indigenous numbers include Algeria, 380,000; Ethiopia, 400,000; Iran, 500,000 (versus only 500 in 1979); Nigeria, 600,000; and Indonesia, an astounding 6,500,000.
Reports of widespread conversions of Muslims to Christianity come from regions as disparate as Algeria, Albania, Syria, and Kurdistan.
{{استشهاد بخبر}}: |trans-title= بحاجة لـ |title= أو |script-title= (help) and |مسار أرشيف= بحاجة لعنوان (help)Conversion to Christianity also surfaced, not least among the group of refugees arriving from the early 1980s from different areas in the Muslim world hit by civil wars or inter-state conflicts.
The world's fastest-growing religion is not any type of fundamentalism, but the Pentecostal wing of Christianity.
The world's fastest-growing religion is not any type of fundamentalism, but the Pentecostal wing of Christianity.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: تحقق من التاريخ في: |تاريخ الوصول= (مساعدة) p. 30. Quick data from the 2016 barometer of Catalonia نسخة محفوظة 20 أكتوبر 2018 على موقع واي باك مشين..{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: روابط خارجية في |موقع={{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link)For Christians, however, there are some net gains from conversion
{{استشهاد ويب}}: الوسيط |title= غير موجود أو فارغ (مساعدة)In 1900, only 1% of the country's population was Christian, but largely through the efforts of missionaries and churches, Christianity has grown rapidly in South Korea over the past century. In 2010, roughly three-in-ten South Koreans were Christian, including members of the world's largest Pentecostal church, Yoido Full Gospel Church, in Seoul.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: الوسيط |title= غير موجود أو فارغ (مساعدة)Speaking of faith and Iran, most people think of Islam. Yet Islam is the fastest shrinking religion there, while Christianity is growing the fastest. According to a report by the Department of State from 2018, up to half a million Iranians are Christian converts from Muslim families, and most of these Christians are evangelicals. Recent estimates claim that the number might have climbed up to somewhere between one million and three million. This is up from 100,000 in 1994, and a majority of these converts are reportedly women. A recent documentary, Sheep among Wolves, documents the lives of these converts and shows how Iran is the "fastest-growing church" in the world.
Recent estimates claim that the number might have climbed up to somewhere between one million and three million.
In war-torn Syria, it is the only place where people are free to worship without hindrance. In fact, it is the only place in the region where people can proselytize and legally change their religion. Because of these conditions, the Kurdish Christian community has continued to grow
Today, one quarter of the two billion Christians in the world are Pentecostal or Charismatic. Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religion in the world.
Massive Growth Under the Radar: Each day, 35,000 people are born again through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
In the last thirty years, there has been an increase in the number of Muslims converting to Christianity. According to one estimate, in the period between 1971 and 1991, the number of Christian converts in Bangladesh has risen from two hundred thousand to four hundred thousand..
Numerous cases of conversion from Islam to Orthodox Christianity are just one of the ways to express the changes in the fluid identity of Bulgarian Muslims ("Pomaks") in Bulgaria after 1990
A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani
P.25: By the early 2000s, some scholars estimated the total number of Kyrgyz converts to Christianity to about 25,000
The liberal newspaper Radikal estimates that there are about 10,000 converts in Turkey, expressing surprise that they could be seen as a "threat" in a country of 73 million people, 99 percent of whom are Muslim.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link) صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء متعددة: قائمة المؤلفين (link) صيانة الاستشهاد: علامات ترقيم زائدة (link) (بالبولندية)/(بالإنجليزية)estimates citing figures lower than 10,000, and others, such as Open Doors USA, citing numbers above 800,000, Many Protestants and converts to Christianity from Islam reportedly practice in secret.
the Moroccan Association of Human Rights estimates there are 25,000 Christian citizens. One media source reportedthat while most Christians in the country are foreigners, there are an estimated 8,000 Christian citizens and that "several thousand" citizens have converted, mostly to Protestant churches..
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء متعددة: قائمة المؤلفين (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link){{استشهاد بدورية محكمة}}: الاستشهاد بدورية محكمة يطلب |دورية محكمة= (مساعدة){{استشهاد ويب}}: استعمال الخط المائل أو الغليظ غير مسموح: |ناشر= (مساعدة)In the Netherlands and Denmark, as well, many are converting from Islam to Christianity, and the trend appears to be growing. Indeed, converts are filling up some European churches largely forsaken by their old Christian flocks.
The Austrian Catholic church logged 300 applications for adult baptism in the first three months of 2016, with the Austrian pastoral institute estimating 70% of those converting are refugees.
The underground nature of the Christian conversion movement has made numbers impossible to determine accurately. Estimates range from 300,000 to 500,000 by various sources.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء متعددة: قائمة المؤلفين (link)Converts to Christianity form a tiny minority of Moroccans. While no official statistics exist, the US State Department estimates their numbers at between 2,000 and 6,000.
{{استشهاد بدورية محكمة}}: الاستشهاد بدورية محكمة يطلب |دورية محكمة= (مساعدة)Pentecostalism is the fastest-growing religious movement in the world
With its remarkable ability to adapt to different cultures, Pentecostalism has become the world's fastest growing religious movement.
Since 2000, thousands of Algerian Muslims have put their faith in Christ. Algerian officials estimate the number of Christians at 50,000, but others say it could be twice that number.
Converted Moroccans — most of them secret worshippers, of whom there are estimated to be anywhere between 5,000 and 40,000 —
Pentecostalism is widely recognized by religious scholars as the fastest-growing Christian movement in the world, reaching into many different denominations.
Pentecostalism is widely recognized by religious scholars as the fastest-growing Christian movement in the world, reaching into many different denominations.
Behind the trend: High birthrates and conversions in the global South.
Christianity. Growth rate: 1.38 percent. Adherents: 2.2 billion. Behind the trend: High birthrates and conversions in the global South.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link)Pentecostalism is the fastest-growing religious movement in the world
With its remarkable ability to adapt to different cultures, Pentecostalism has become the world's fastest growing religious movement.
Today, one quarter of the two billion Christians in the world are Pentecostal or Charismatic. Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religion in the world.
The world's fastest-growing religion is not any type of fundamentalism, but the Pentecostal wing of Christianity.
Pentecostalism is widely recognized by religious scholars as the fastest-growing Christian movement in the world, reaching into many different denominations.
One of the most significant transformations in twentieth-century Christianity is the emergence and development of Pentecostalism. With over five hundred million followers, it is the fastest-growing movement in the world. An incredibly diverse movement, it has influenced many sectors of Christianity, flourishing in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and having an equally significant effect on Canada.
Many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: تحقق من قيمة |مسار أرشيف= (مساعدة) وتحقق من قيمة |مسار= (مساعدة)Pentecostalism arguably has been the fastest growing religious movement in the contemporary world
At the heart of this religious resurgence are Islam and Pentecostalism, a branch of Protestant Christianity. Islam grew at an annual average of 1.9 percent between 2000 and 2017, mainly as the result of a high birth rate. Pentecostalism grew at 2.2 percent each year, mainly by conversion. Half of developing-world Christians are Pentecostal, evangelical or charismatic (all branches of the faith emphasize the authority of the Bible and the need for a spiritual rebirth). Why are people so attracted to it?.
Pentecostalism grew at 2.2 percent each year, mainly by conversion. Half of developing-world Christians are Pentecostal, evangelical or charismatic.
The world's fastest-growing religion is not any type of fundamentalism, but the Pentecostal wing of Christianity.
Pentecostalism is widely recognized by religious scholars as the fastest-growing Christian movement in the world, reaching into many different denominations.
Many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history.
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{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link)A study of the religious lives of university students in Beijing published in a mainland Chinese academic journal Science and Atheism in 2013 showed Christianity to be the religion that interested students most and the most active on campuses. It concluded there was a "religious fever" in society and "religious forces were infiltrating colleges." With the support of "overseas religious forces," it said, there was a rapid growth in Christianity among university students. It said Christian fellowships on campus mostly refused to succumb to the leadership of the state-backed churches and thus posed "a problem" in the government's administration of religious affairs.
Finally, during this century there has been a rapid growth in the number of Chinese Christians. Very few Chinese were Christians at the turn of the century. Today Christians constitute approximately 10 or 15 percent of the Chinese population in Indonesia, and probably a higher percentage among the young. Conversion of Chinese to Chris tianity accelerated in the 1960s, especially in East Java, and for Indonesia as a whole the proportion of Chinese who were Catholics rose from 2 percent in 1957 to 6 percent in 19.
P.15: Chiaramonte 2016), that it is young people in particular who convert to Christianity in today's Iran
This socio-demographic characterizes Christian converts as mostly .. (2) well-educated, (3) belonging in higher-income brackets, (4) switching their religion between ten and twenty-nine years of age
Converts to Christianity tend to come from the young, educated, English-speaking Chinese generation
Christianity has flourished in post-colonial Singapore, especially attracting conversions from among young, urbanized and English- educated.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link)In 1900, only 1% of the country's population was Christian, but largely through the efforts of missionaries and churches, Christianity has grown rapidly in South Korea over the past century. In 2010, roughly three-in-ten South Koreans were Christian, including members of the world's largest Pentecostal church, Yoido Full Gospel Church, in Seoul.
{{استشهاد بخبر}}: |trans-title= بحاجة لـ |title= أو |script-title= (help) and |مسار أرشيف= بحاجة لعنوان (help)P.25: Finally, during this century there has been a rapid growth in the number of Chinese Christians. Very few Chinese were Christians at the turn of the century. 22 Christians today make up roughly 10 or 15 percent of the Chinese population in Indonesia, 23 and perhaps a higher proportion among the young. The conversion of Chinese to Christianity accelerated in the 1960s, particularly in East Java, and for Indonesia as a whole, the proportion of Chinese who were Catholic rose from 2 percent in 1957 to 6 percent in 1969 (24). locally born) Chinese. This growth appears to be a response to intense missionary efforts and a search for acceptance and identity in Indonesian society through the adoption of a more acceptable and less "Chinese" religion25 which at the same time removes suspicion of sympathy with the communists.
The 2006 Gallup poll, however, disclosed that an astounding 12 per cent of Japanese who claim a religion are now Christian, making six per cent of the entire nation Christian.
For Christians, however, there are some net gains from conversion
Since the 1960s, there has been a substantial increase in the number of Muslims who have converted to Christianity
Reports of widespread conversions of Muslims to Christianity come from regions as disparate as Algeria, Albania, Syria, and Kurdistan. Countries with the largest indigenous numbers include Algeria, 380,000; Ethiopia, 400,000; Iran, 500,000 (versus only 500 in 1979); Nigeria, 600,000; and Indonesia, an astounding 6,500,000.
Between 1966 and 1976, some 2 million ethnic Javanese from nominally Islamic backgrounds converted to Christianity
It estimated the Afghan Christian community ranges from 500 to 8,000 people. For all practical purposes, there are no native Afghan Christians; they are all converts from Islam who worship in secret to avoid being killed for apostasy..
Reports of widespread conversions of Muslims to Christianity come from regions as disparate as Algeria, Albania, Syria, and Kurdistan.
P.19: A part of the Muslims in emigration are directly or indirectly induced to convert to Catholicism or Orthodoxy
Since 2000, thousands of Algerian Muslims have put their faith in Christ. Algerian officials estimate the number of Christians at 50,000, but others say it could be twice that number.
there is an estimated 20,000 to 100,000 evangelical Christians in Algeria, who practice their faith in mainly unregistered churches in the Kabyle region
some Algerian Muslims who converted to Christianity kept a low profile due to concern for their personal safety and potential legal and social problem
The Austrian Catholic church logged 300 applications for adult baptism in the first three months of 2016, with the Austrian pastoral institute estimating 70% of those converting are refugees.
In the last thirty years, there has been an increase in the number of Muslims converting to Christianity. According to one estimate, in the period between 1971 and 1991, the number of Christian converts in Bangladesh has risen from two hundred thousand to four hundred thousand..
it is estimated that as many as 91,000 Muslims across Bangladesh have converted to Christianity in the last six years.
Numerous cases of conversion from Islam to Orthodox Christianity are just one of the ways to express the changes in the fluid identity of Bulgarian Muslims ("Pomaks") in Bulgaria after 1990
Conversion to Christianity also surfaced, not least among the group of refugees arriving from the early 1980s from different areas in the Muslim world hit by civil wars or inter-state conflicts.
In the Netherlands and Denmark, as well, many are converting from Islam to Christianity, and the trend appears to be growing. Indeed, converts are filling up some European churches largely forsaken by their old Christian flocks.
In 2017, the Finnish Immigration Service received approximately 1,000 asylum applications and appeals based on conversion from Islam to Christianity.
Thousands of refugees in Germany are converting from Islam to Christianity, although it could carry a huge personal risk for them. Independent churches are especially seeing many new converts.
Er lächelt und antwortet in einwandfreiem Griechisch: ‚Ich bin eigentlich auch ein Albaner.'
Over 20,000 Kashmiri Muslims are reported to have converted to Christianity since the inception of militancy in 1990.
In his research article, Miller (2015, p. 71) points to an anonymous, but the well-informed source that estimated that in 2010, there were about 100,000 converts in Iran... estimated the number of Christian ethnic Persians to be about 175,000. these were claimed to be converts of Shiite Muslim background.
Open Doors, interviewed by the UK Home Office on 8 August 2017, stated that many converts do not publicly report their faith due to persecution, so it is difficult to record the exact numbers of Iranian Christian converts. Open Doors believes the number to be 800,000, although this is a conservative estimate. Other estimates put the number between 400,000-500,000 right up to 3 million... A March 2019 US Congressional Research Service report on Iran put the 300,000
The underground nature of the Christian conversion movement has made numbers impossible to determine accurately. Estimates range from 300,000 to 500,000 by various sources.
estimates citing figures lower than 10,000, and others, such as Open Doors USA, citing numbers above 800,000, Many Protestants and converts to Christianity from Islam reportedly practice in secret.
Conservative estimates place the number of Christians in Iran between 500,000 to 800,000 believers, but others claim there are more than one million. Traditionally, Christian families amount to around 250,000, while the remainder consists of converts from Islam. Most converts from Islam belong to the underground Protestant house-church movement, which Iran considers to be illegal. Meanwhile, according to Islamic and Iranian law, conversion from Islam is a capital offense.
P.25: By the early 2000s, some scholars estimated the total number of Kyrgyz converts to Christianity to about 25,000
Converted Moroccans — most of them secret worshippers, of whom there are estimated to be anywhere between 5,000 and 40,000 —
There are no official statistics, but leaders say there are about 50,000 Moroccan Christians, most of them from the Protestant Evangelical tradition.
the Moroccan Association of Human Rights estimates there are 25,000 Christian citizens. One media source reportedthat while most Christians in the country are foreigners, there are an estimated 8,000 Christian citizens and that "several thousand" citizens have converted, mostly to Protestant churches..
Converts to Christianity form a tiny minority of Moroccans. While no official statistics exist, the US State Department estimates their numbers at between 2,000 and 6,000.
In the Netherlands, thousands of Iranian Muslim migrants and refugees are converting to Christianity, despite conversion from Islam being considered apostasy in Iran and punishable by death.
A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani
More tangibly, figures published in January 2004 in Turkey's mainstream Milliyet newspaper claimed that 35,000 Muslims, the vast majority of them in Istanbul, had converted to Christianity in 2003. While impossible to confirm (the Turkish government does not release these figures), the rate of conversion, according to Christian leaders in Turkey, is on the rise.
The liberal newspaper Radikal estimates that there are about 10,000 converts in Turkey, expressing surprise that they could be seen as a "threat" in a country of 73 million people, 99 percent of whom are Muslim.
P.9: Iranian Christian converts in Britain form three distinguishable groups depending on where they've converted: 1.Those who converted in Iran 2.Those who converted in transit (mostly Turkey) 3.Those who converted in Britain
Although approximately 20,000 Muslims convert to Christianity annually, ... In 2010 were approximately 180,000 and about 130,000 Iranian Americans who converted from Islam to Christianity.
In the West, experts estimate thousands of Muslims switch to Christianity every year but keep their conversions secret for fear of retribution. "Converts from Islam, especially those who become involved in Christian ministries, often use assumed names, or only their first names, in order to protect themselves and their families," writes Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a Washington-based terrorism analyst in Commentary.
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Speaking of faith and Iran, most people think of Islam. Yet Islam is the fastest shrinking religion there, while Christianity is growing the fastest. According to a report by the Department of State from 2018, up to half a million Iranians are Christian converts from Muslim families, and most of these Christians are evangelicals. Recent estimates claim that the number might have climbed up to somewhere between one million and three million. This is up from 100,000 in 1994, and a majority of these converts are reportedly women. A recent documentary, Sheep among Wolves, documents the lives of these converts and shows how Iran is the "fastest-growing church" in the world.
Recent estimates claim that the number might have climbed up to somewhere between one million and three million.
In war-torn Syria, it is the only place where people are free to worship without hindrance. In fact, it is the only place in the region where people can proselytize and legally change their religion. Because of these conditions, the Kurdish Christian community has continued to grow
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