Uganda’s recent Census report indicated that Pentecostals have increased from 4.7 per cent to 11.1 per cent. Further more, the Ubos figures revealed that Ugandans who don’t believe in any religion have reduced from 0.9 per cent in 2002 to 0.2 per cent in 2014.
A new Report by The Daily Beast claims thousands of Muslim refugees living in countries like Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, are converting to Christianity and getting baptized.
The pastor of a German congregation in Berlin told the online publication that the conversions were “a gift from God” and said 1,200 Muslims, mainly from Afghanistan and Iran, have embraced the Christian faith in the last three years.
Earlier this year, Albert Babajan, pastor of a Pentecostal congregation in Hamburg, Germany, said many refugees escaping from Muslim-dominated countries expressed their disappointment about Islam.
One convert told a local Germany newspaper, “In Iran I began to look into various religions. Then I really asked myself why I live all the time in fear.”
One Persian-speaking congregation claimed more than 600 people got baptized this year alone.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that more than 3 million have fled to Syria’s immediate neighbors Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq. More than 6.5 million are internally displaced within Syria.
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