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Former Taliban from Afghanistan Baptized on Mount Athos

August 18, 2013 By Fr. John 10 Comments

All these years after work I would go to the outside of the churches in the beginning – something was pulling me there – and afterwards I began to enter within. I would become calm. As my Greek was getting better, I wanted to know more about Christ. I found a New Testament, however it was in a language I did not understand [Koine Greek]. Eventually I found a blue one in the Greek I had learned. I began to read it. I decided that I wanted to become a Christian.

Filed Under: Latest Stories, Muslims, News Tagged With: convert, Mt. Athos, orthodox, taliban

More Imams Convert To Christ

April 13, 2013 By Fr. John 38 Comments

Islam’s Bane Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Coptic priest Fr. Zakaria Botros, who al Qaeda has called “one of the most wanted infidels in the world,” issuing a 60 million dollar bounty on his head. Popular Arabic magazines also call him “Islam’s public enemy #1?. He hosts a television program, “Truth Talk,” on Life TV. […]

Filed Under: Muslims Tagged With: Christ, converts, Fr. Zakaria Botros, imams

Worshipping Jesus At A Mosque

January 15, 2013 By Fr. John 16 Comments

by Gene Daniels This story displays the power that culture can have to repel converts from the Gospel! Culture is a powerful force, and must be harnessed for spreading the Gospel. This actually reminds me of the work of Sheldon Jackson in Alaska, and the disastrous effects it had on the native cultures he attacked […]

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Met. Hilarion of ROCOR Visits India,Celebrates Liturgy

January 13, 2013 By Fr. John 2 Comments

Metropolitan Hilarion the first Hierarch of ROCOR arrived in Mumbai on the 10th pf January 2013 and was warmly welcomed by the local people. Former Metropolitan John Augustine of the Anglican church hosted a welcome dinner later that evening to mark this historical moment of ROCOR’s first metropolitan in recent times who has visited the Indian sub […]

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Many Muslims Baptized After the Death of Fr. Daniel Sisoyev

October 30, 2012 By Fr. John 16 Comments

The reason for the murder of the priest Daniel Sysoev was the success of his mission among the Muslims, says his friend the famous missionary Father Oleg Stenyaev, according to the news agency Interfax-Religion. “A man gets killed when he is feared, when his spiritual superiority is feared. Father Daniel was threatened 14 times. And […]

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