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Muslim converts breathe new life into Europe’s struggling Christian churches
Fox News ^ | March 21, 2017

Posted on 08/10/2017 7:05:41 AM PDT by Javeth

Christianity is making a comeback in Europe – and it’s mostly thanks to Muslims, say experts in Islam and faith leaders.

A soaring number of Muslims, many of them refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are converting to Christianity, breathing new life into Europe’s once floundering Christian churches. The Muslims are flocking to various Christian denominations, experts said, including becoming Protestants, evangelical or Catholic.

As many parts of Europe are becoming more secular and houses of worship are seeing congregants leave in droves, it is Muslim converts who are reviving struggling Christian churches

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There are so many delicious ironies in this development it's hard to know where to start. A friend of mine doing missionary work in Europe sent this article to me and while it's from March, the phenomenon has only picked up pace since then, so much so that many of Europe's churches are performing mass baptisms every Sunday in the Rhine, Loire, Tiber, Seine and Danube, while once nearly defunct churches are brimming with new believers. The best part? This development represents a complete backfiring of the plans of George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Robert Kagan, Marco Rubio, Orrin Hatch, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Flake, Angela Merkel, Sheldon Adelson, Lindsey Graham, Jeb Bush, David Petraeus, John Kerry and the other globalists and neocons. With their political, financial and media assets, they had instigated the invasion and bloodletting in Libya and Syria to ensure the snuffing out of the region’s Christians and cause a massive refugee movement that would overwhelm Europe and the Americas, with the hope that the demographic onslaught would achieve what even 80 years of repressive communism and secularism could not do: cripple the archenemy and strongest bulwark against the globalists, the Christian faith and the church. But the globalists failed, and here’s the best part—ultimately Donald Trump himself was the key to foiling their plans, and in the process he’s already saved Western Civilization.

My missionary friend in Europe has been part of a larger effort among Christians across the world to bring about mass conversions of the Muslim refugees to the true faith, and for the first time in modern history, they’ve enjoyed incredible success, which they owe in big part to Trump’s victory and his thwarting of the globalist’s plans for mass Christian slaughter and destabilization in the Middle East. In fact despite the American MSM’s attempts to paint Trump as unpopular in Europe, that’s only true of the elites, the European people actually respect him greatly for what he’s already done. Most of the backstory on the Soros Plan to crush the heart of Christianity has been untranslated from the European media so here is how my friend and his missionary associates have translated it from the original sources. As all of us in the true conservative movement in the US are aware, the so-called “Arab Spring” against secular dictators Mubarak, Gaddafi and Assad—all of whom resisted ISIS and other Islamic extremists, protecting their countries Christians—was not a revolution. It was a systematic coup attempt instigated by globalists in the Obama Administration and neocons to bring down the secular rulers, allowing ISIS and al-Qaida to mass slaughter Middle Eastern Christians and cause a refugee movement of millions of Muslims that would overwhelm the West.

The timing and scale of the planned migration was important. Although not well known to us in the US, Europe in the past decade has been experiencing a fledgling Christian revival that’s been gaining a lot of momentum, among both the natives and also among the refugees, who the missionaries were ministering to and providing Scriptures in their native tongues. But with millions and millions of Muslims pouring in at once, the sheer scale would have overwhelmed the missionary efforts and led to social unrest, giving the globalists the excuse they needed to suspend civil authority and crack down on local institutions. Those guilty of “racist crimes” against diversity, multiculturalism and political correctness for resisting the invasion--that is, the native-born populations of the West--would be rounded up in the process and “re-educated”, the same play-book the Bolsheviks and other Communists used to impose themselves on eastern Europe after 1917, but much more dangerous due to the direct attack on the West’s Christian identity and its planned replacement with Islam.

With George Soros and his network of NGO’s backing the effort globally, the CIA, Saudis, NSA (by blackmailing elected officials), US and British neocons and globalists provided arms and support to ISIS, al-Qaida and other jihadists (the so-called “moderate rebels”), worsening the bloodbath in Syria and Iraq and allowing for massacres against the Christian and Yazid population in the Mideast and North Africa. Meanwhile Angela Merkel, who had been groomed by the anti-Christian Communist East German Stasi, would open the gates of Europe to mass Muslim migration, while Obama, Hillary Clinton and their counterparts in Canada and Australia would follow suit. And the globalists very nearly succeeded with their plans to break the back of Christianity worldwide.

But two things got in the globalists’ way and led to their plans, and billions of dollars, being turned against them. One is that Russia, the only remaining great power with an explicitly pro-Christian policy, entered the war in Syria to support the secular Assad against the “moderate rebels” and protecting the region’s Christians, turning the tide against the jihadists. By itself this wasn’t enough to stop the Soros Plan, as we all can recall, the neocon and globalist propaganda rags like the New York Times and Washington Post began pushing loudly and openly in 2015 for the US to invade Syria, depose Assad and attack Russia. They worked hard to crush both the Trump and Sanders insurgencies and to put one of their war-hungry neocon sycophants—RINO’s like Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Carly Fiorina or of course, Hillary Clinton on the Dem side—into the White House. They failed to stop Trump’s utter humiliation of Bush, Rubio, Graham and the RINO’s in the Republican primaries, but as November 2016 neared, they were tantalized by the polls showing a nearly certain Hillary victory, they could just taste the Soros Plan coming to fruition.

And then Trump crushed the globalists’ hopes by defeating Hillary while gradually withdrawing support from the Syrian rebels, finally ending the CIA and Obama’s backing of the ISIS mass murderers last week. And then comes the most delicious part. In addition to saving the Christians of Iraq and Syria from certain genocide at the hands of ISIS and al-Qaida, Trump also foiled the globalists’ plans for the refugee invasion. As ISIS lost power and the Syrian war continued to wind down, millions of Syrian refugees in January began to return home or to the support of friends in neighboring countries. The refugee numbers were still substantial, but Trump’s decisive action helped to stem the flow enough that the Christian missionaries in Europe were able to give them individual attention and to bring the love of Christ to their ears and hearts. The refugees had already developed a bad taste for Islam after seeing the brutality of ISIS and many were already moving to leave Islam, and the result is that tens of thousands, and by the summer hundreds of thousands began to convert to Christianity in mass baptisms, filling the churches of Europe as they haven’t been filled since the communists began attacking the faith in the 1920’s.

And it gets better. Not only are the remaining refugees in Europe converting, but because they know of Islam’s evil and hypocrisy, and also can speak the languages and understand the culture of others from the Muslim countries, they’ve become missionaries in their own right to convert the Muslims already in Europe. As a result France’s Arabic-speaking Muslims, many in Europe for decades, are more and more renouncing Islam and coming into the church. Even better, some of the most strong hearted converts are going back to help build churches in the Middle East, result is that Syria and North Africa are now in the middle of a fervent spate of church-building even as the war and unrest in the region had continued to rage on!

My friend in Germany pointed out an irony little appreciated, in March Angela Merkel, who had been gradually moving to reverse her previous open door policies, made a full policy change and abruptly shut the door on further refugees while pushing to deport those still there. Her counterparts in Sweden, Italy, Norway, Finland and Netherlands did the same, and those countries now have migrant policies almost as tough as Hungary under Orban (and France, which apparently has very strict immigration laws now too). The media was confused at first and couldn’t figure out why, but it turns out a big reason is that Merkel, who thought her Stasi plan to inundate the West would lead to the crushing of the Christian faith, the sworn enemy of communism and the Stasi, was instead seeing the Soros Plan backfire completely and lead to a mass Christian surge, and wanted to stem the damage. Muslims are indeed being deported but Christians are able to stay. And since the Syrians and even many Iraqis essentially look more European than even many Europeans in the Mediterranean do, they integrate very quickly.

Thus not only did Trump crush the hearts and hopes of the neocons, globalists and SJW’s with his victory against Hillary, he also crushed the Soros Plan. Then in addition to saving the Christians of the Middle East, he also helped create an army of hundreds of thousands of newly converted and passionate Christians, who are now turning around to convert much of the Middle East to the true faith. As result Soros and the other neocons and globalists spent billions and billions of dollars in a plan to crush the heart of Christianity, only to see their billions turned against them in the most spectacular way possible! It’s no wonder their hatred of Trump is mounting more and more by the day, and why the attacks in the neocon and globalist media have become even more fanatical and desperate. Their suffering and shock are a delight to Americans and Christians across the world, and with Trump standing up to their schemes, they’ll fail again and again. MAGA!

1 posted on 08/10/2017 7:05:42 AM PDT by Javeth
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To: Javeth

FREEDOM !


2 posted on 08/10/2017 7:06:28 AM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: Javeth

A Muslim girlfriend of mine told me Jesus came to her in a dream with His arms outstretched. She said, “I want to follow You” Gave me chills and made me weak in the knees.


3 posted on 08/10/2017 7:08:54 AM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Javeth

Rack this up under “The Lord’s ways are higher than our ways.”


4 posted on 08/10/2017 7:11:57 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: HokieMom

Your friend’s experience is not isolated. Joel Rosenberg wrote a book chronicling thousands of similar experiences of Muslims converting after Jesus came to them in a dream.


5 posted on 08/10/2017 7:12:32 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Javeth

Pray this is true.

Know that taqiyya and idtirar exist.

KYPD


6 posted on 08/10/2017 7:13:08 AM PDT by petro45acp (" It IS About Islam: exposing the truth about ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the caliphate" by Glenn Beck)
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To: butlerweave

Best news I heard in a long time.


7 posted on 08/10/2017 7:13:19 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Javeth

Could be Taqqiya, to try to justify bringing in more Muslim refugees.


8 posted on 08/10/2017 7:14:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: HokieMom

Great to hear! I’ve heard similar accounts, despite the despair we sometimes feel at the way the MSM constantly attacks the churches and promotes Islam, the reality is that Muslims more and more, when they see and understand the freedom and love embodied by the church, join our flocks and don’t look back.


9 posted on 08/10/2017 7:15:53 AM PDT by Javeth
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In Austria, the Catholic Church received some 300 applications for adult baptism in the first three months of 2016,

Yours is an excellent, uplifting story. This is the only fact I could pull from the article. While its reason for celebration, this is 300 out of how many? 10,000?

Do your sources give any numbers or other facts to show this trend?

10 posted on 08/10/2017 7:16:59 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: HokieMom
A Muslim girlfriend of mine told me Jesus came to her in a dream with His arms outstretched. She said, “I want to follow You” Gave me chills and made me weak in the knees.

She's not the only one to have such a dream. I've seen many reports of similar stories happening in this country and all throughout the Middle East but there seems to be an especially great emphasis in Iran. I pray these reports are true.

11 posted on 08/10/2017 7:17:04 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Javeth

I WOULD TAKE A Muslim CONVERT over the kind of socialist atheist pablum that infests the liberal sewers of western Europe.


12 posted on 08/10/2017 7:17:30 AM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: Javeth

A good development. But stop calling them m*slims once they leave the death cult.
*slam is *hit.


13 posted on 08/10/2017 7:18:00 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Insanity, even when disguised by a nice-sounding name, is still insanity.)
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To: circlecity
Your friend’s experience is not isolated. Joel Rosenberg wrote a book chronicling thousands of similar experiences of Muslims converting after Jesus came to them in a dream.

I haven't read his book, can't recall the title right now, but I read about it and was intrigued and started researching the topic and there's a ton of stories out there all claiming the same thing.

14 posted on 08/10/2017 7:18:58 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Javeth

Not the 1st time I’ve seen God make evil punch itself in the face. lol

God is good......ALL the time!


15 posted on 08/10/2017 7:19:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: dfwgator

I did wonder that too as did my missionary contacts in Europe, but they said in the vast majority of cases the conversions are very genuine. The converts and their families stay in the church and attend services regularly, read the Scriptures, even change their names, both first and surnames to Christian names in the local languages. Apparently taqiyya also is a concept used for just some sub-branches of Shia ISslam mostly among Iranians. In fact for Sunnis who convert, it’s considered apostasy and the converts and families can be targeted. So when they convert and attend services, raise their children in the church, they’re quite sincere, and the ministers there at any rate have gotten pretty experienced at getting a sense of the true converts, who are the vast majority of the flock.


16 posted on 08/10/2017 7:19:12 AM PDT by Javeth
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To: butlerweave

While the Obama cabinet was converting to Islam…especially all the heads of our intel agencies. Go figure….


17 posted on 08/10/2017 7:19:37 AM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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To: butlerweave

I good Iraqi friend of mine was on my staff in Basra during OIF. He was under constant threat from the militia for helping the US. Well he left with the wave of immigrants a couple years ago and made it all the way to Sweden. There he had a very personal and highly spiritual conversion experience and has been rejoicing in the Lord ever since. I knew he loved dogs too by the way he’d smile at the morale and bomb sniffing K9s at the base but forbid himself to touch him. Now he sends me pics from Stockholm of him and the dogs. Brings tears and I know he’s not not faking it.


18 posted on 08/10/2017 7:22:13 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: PGR88

I think that particular number was from a small sample of small churches in the capital that do polling type sampling and reporting, plus it’s only one family member who applies and doesn’t include other relatives, thus the total numbers are a lot higher. Google for example mass baptisms, or the equivalent in French, German or Italian I guess if you can speak it, and there are apparently countless accounts of hundreds being baptized at a time. Which in itself is amazing since the converts could potentially be targeted as apostates, yet they have no hesitation to go public.


19 posted on 08/10/2017 7:22:56 AM PDT by Javeth
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To: PeteePie

Great to hear, thanks for sharing that, always great to hear such uplifting cases!


20 posted on 08/10/2017 7:23:42 AM PDT by Javeth
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