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Robert of St. Albans – English templar knight who converted to Islam from Christianity in 1185 and led an army for Saladin against the Crusaders in Jerusalem [133] Christian Rontini – Filipino footballer, he decided to convert from Catholicism to Islam while playing football in Indonesia [ 134 ]
Sunita Lyn Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, United States Navy officer, and former record holder for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).
Converts to Christianity from Islam Total population Between 8.4 million (2014 study) - 10.2 million (2015 study) According to the study 6 million of those converts came from Indonesia; however, the 6 million figure also includes descendants of those converts. Significant numbers of Muslims convert to Christianity in: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, [6] [7] Australia, Austria, [8] Azerbaijan ...
Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person that brings about changes in what sociologists refer to as the convert's "root reality" including their social behaviors, thinking and ethics. The sociology of religion indicates religious conversion was an important factor in the emergence of ...
Forced conversion is the adoption of a religion or irreligion under duress. [ 1] Someone who has been forced to convert to a different religion or irreligion may continue, covertly, to adhere to the beliefs and practices which were originally held, while outwardly behaving as a convert.
Portal. v. t. e. Conversion to Islam is accepting Islam as a religion or faith and rejecting any other religion or irreligion. [ 1] The person who converts to Islam is often referred to as a Revert (instead of Convert ), because many Muslims believe that all children are born Muslims (meaning: 'submitters [to God ]'). [ 2]
This gives us an ethical and legal responsibility." Do not list a person as having converted from a particular religion (example: Islam) unless there are references in their article to their former religious affiliation with citation backing it up. (merely growing up in a Muslim family does not count.)
Christianity and Islam are the two largest religions in the world, with approximately 2.8 billion and 1.9 billion adherents, respectively. [ 1][ 2] Both religions are Abrahamic and monotheistic, having originated in the Middle East . Christianity developed out of Second Temple Judaism in the 1st century CE.