A Muslim extremist has upon witnessing a church service led by Christians in war-torn Syria decided to abandon his radical lifestyle and turn to Jesus Christ.
Open Doors USA, an organisation that serves persecuted Christians worldwide has on Monday shared in an article for Mission Network News the story of a pastor in Syria who witnessed the conversion.
The pastor says that together with other pastors, they were concerned when they saw a Muslim extremist man with a beard without a mustache heading in their direction as they went about with their duties of hosting a church event in the community where they feed residents and shared the Gospel message.
“They prayed about it, but invited the man in and just kept an eye on him, fed him, and he heard the sermon and he gave his life to Christ.” Mission Network News says.
For more than six years, Syria has been hacked apart by war. Some combatants fight for freedom, some for jihad, some for the Damascus regime. But whatever the motivation, the upshot is seemingly endless bombing, chemical weapons attacks, suicide explosions, starvation, sieges and displacement.
The pastors that witnessed this conversion are few of the Christians that have stayed in their communities despite the heavy dangers from IS, many others, such as families from Mosul, have had to flee to safety.
According to BBC, Christians are believed to have constituted about 30% of the Syrian population as recently as the 1920s. Today, they make up about 10% of Syria’s 22 million people.
Sunni Muslims meanwhile make up some 70% of the population and about 12% are Alawites, members of a heterodox Shia sect to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs. President Bashar al-Assad is the 19th and current President of Syria, holding the office since 17 July 2000.
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