Six Million African Muslims Convert to Christianity Each Year (?!)

The Muslim Times ^ | April 18, 2012 | Rafiq A. Tschannen

[jdsteel]

I was in Africa for a mission trip. I was surprised to find that the large plane from Amsterdam to Entebbe was filled with missionaries from all over the U.S. This was not an organized plane full of people that knew each other. Our group was only about a dozen in size. God is working through people for Africa. On another note, the African Methodists are very conservative compared to big city Methodists in the states.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This has some fascinating parts to it.

First and foremost, black Africans have finally realized that Arabs have always, and will always, see them as nothing more than slaves, whether they are pagans, Christians or Muslims. “Islam says that all Muslims are equal. So why are we treated as slaves by our fellow Muslims?”

Meanwhile, Christianity has no slavery, and Christians fight against slavery, even buying freedom for some Muslim slaves.

A recent example of this was in Timbuktu, when the Tuaregs descended on the city, and immediately enslaved free blacks, as did the Arabs who had lived freely with blacks for years, who turned on their black neighbors and abused them. When the French finally routed the Tuaregs, and many of the Arabs ran away as well, the local blacks cheered.

While the city was and is firmly Muslim, the message was not lost on the blacks.

Next, someone cannot just “leave” Islam, because the Muslims will say they cannot, and will still call them Muslim and treat them as such. So to leave, they must convert, and Christianity is the best option. So they can say, “I am *not* a Muslim. I am a Christian!”

Then, the timing of this was nothing short of amazing.

With the huge influx of converts, the Christian churches of Africa were financially stretched thin. But at just the right time, the Anglican church in North America had a schism. Its conservatives, to escape the oppression of its leftist Bishops, took their churches out of the Anglican dioceses, and instead became “African Missionary Churches” for the very conservative African dioceses.

African Missionary Churches filled with middle and upper middle class white people. White people with money, and more than happy to send a lot of it to their African bishops and Archbishops.

Money that immediately went into building church after church for all the new Christian converts. And this was just the Anglicans.

The Catholics, Evangelicals, and other conservative Christian churches have been pouring a river of money into Africa at just the right time, and every penny matters.

In turn, some of the Christian leaders have nations of congregants, and the unsolicited power of princes.

And all the while, Islam hemorrhages. Importantly, the birthrate in Arab nations has plummeted, so their growth that way is also in question in the future.

[Trod Upon]

Omoslem would have to be nothing but a bad memory before that could happen.

[Fiji Hill]

Maybe African churches will start sending missionaries to Europe and the US to convert the heathen.

[SunkenCiv]

See, no wonder there’s so much violence, it’s completely understandable that Moslems would react to this. /s

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

[Isabel2010]

You mean to tell me the power of God is greater than the muzlime sword?

Yes, and the reality is that true resistance against the muzzie can work~~~too bad so many people, PC and many national leaders are so afraid of the muzzie the muzslim sword becomes greater than it really is~

[PGR88]

Now send them arms so they can defend themselves from the death cult.

That and a little training is exactly what South Sudan needs to defend itself from the Muslim thugs of Khartoum

[huldah1776]

Hmmm. Why would Al Jazeerah report such a high number? Is the motive to motivate against any Christians?

[JerseyanExile]

They’ve already been doing that for years.

[nickcarraway]

Said by who?

[Biggirl]

Also I sense God is preparing missionaries to bring back the good news of the Gospel back to the west.

[Biggirl]

God is getting His missionaries ready to bring the good news of the Gospel to the west.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Why would Al Jazeerah report such a high number?

To sound the alarm to the Muslim world regarding the “enemy” advancing.

[Biggirl]

Also to realize that the good news of the Gospel of Jesus is winning souls to Christ.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Trying to figure out Christianity in Africa is problematic at best. According to the Congressional Research Service, there are a little over 300 million. Britannica Online Encyclopedia says 488 million. According to the UN and Pew research, 516 million.

The Catholic church alone claims 330 million in Africa.
Anglicans 43 million.
No even approximate totals for Evangelicals and other Protestants, other than some reporting growth rates of 400%.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"White"? Where do you get "white"?

[knarf]

/s ... sorry, I didn’t think you needed it ...obviously not.

[Cronos]

unless they are in Libya or east, they can convert with a lower chance of death. What we need to encourage is Berber nationalism — Berbers fear their ethnicity being overwhlemed by Arabisation (most north africans are berbers but think of themselves as Arabs as being an Arab is prestigious in Islam).

[Cronos]

Not me. This Catholic sees an argument with fellow Christians as an argument, but the war-to-death with Islam is different.

Let them all become Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons, it's still better than Islam...

[Cronos]

It is said Iran may become a Christian country within a generation.

That may be optimistic. What IS true is that Iranians are turning from Islam.

Iranis are not Arabs, so Islam is a foreign philosophy that glorifies a culture that they look on as inferior. Also, the misrule by the Ayatollah's has alienated many. Mosque attendance is low -- look at Tehran's mosque to Ayatollah Khomeini -- it's mostly empty except for women beggars with their children and tourists....