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REVIVAL BREAKS OUT IN LAND ONCE HOSTILE TO CHRISTIANITY By Jeremy Reynalds Senior
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
NORTHERN AFRICA (ANS) -- A Christian revival is touching the northernmost reaches of Africa. In a region once hostile to the gospel, tens of thousands of Muslims are now following Jesus. Muslims across Northern Africa are converting to faith in Jesus Christ in record numbers.
Speaking in a story by George Thomas for CBN News, Regent University graduate and filmmaker Tino Qahosh said, "What God is doing in North Africa, all the way from actually Mauritanian to Libya is unprecedented in the history of missions." Qahoush has spent years traveling the region to document the transformation.
He said, "I have the privilege of recording testimonies and listening to firsthand stories of men and women, of all ages where they can be sitting in a room and see the appearance and the presence of God appear to them in reality, like a vision, some of them gave me stories of how they carry on a conversation, it's not just a light that appears."
He added that he sometimes feels jealous. "How come Jesus is visiting the Muslim world at this time and age and we don't hear that happening in the traditional Christian community?"
Thomas said his interviews confirm what experts say is a profound move of God in the predominantly Muslim nations of Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia.
From the shores of Casablanca in Morocco to Tripoli, Libya, experts say the growth of Christianity, especially in the last 20 years, has been unprecedented. And now that growth is also evident in the North African nation of Algeria.
Pastor Salah leads one of the largest churches in Algeria. Some 1,200 believers attend the church, and 99 percent of the population is Muslim.
"In fact we never thought the Algerian church would grow so big," Thomas reported Salah said. He pointed out that every new Christian in his church came from a Muslim background. Since the church opened, they have baptized an average of between 150 to160 believers per year.
Zino, a former Muslim, was invited to attend Pastor Salah's church by a friend.
What he observed transformed him. "I saw Algerians worshiping God with all their hearts and it touched me."
Others, like Farhat who is also a former Muslim, speak of miraculous encounters. He says he was illiterate and couldn't read the Bible when he accepted the Lord, but then God made a change.
"Since then I've read the Bible and understood the Word of God. This is just an example of what God has done in my life and this is the case of many people here in Algeria."
Thomas said even though Algeria is overwhelmingly Muslim the government has given protestant churches the freedom to register their congregations.
"It is the first Muslim Arab government who recognizes officially churches from Islam," said says Youssef Qurahmane, a leading Algerian Pastor.
He added that the government harass and intimidate Christians from time to time, but the level of persecution is nothing like it was 20 years ago. In fact, Qurahmane is seeing God open unprecedented doors.
Thomas reported he said, "God has given to us many opportunities to witness at the police stations, at the courts, and in fact one time I went to the police station and they gave me 45 minutes to speak about Jesus! Just imagine yourself, they are all Muslims sitting and telling me, 'Tell us about Jesus!'"
But Algeria and the countries of North Africa weren't always open to the gospel.
A veteran missionary in the region says things were very different some years ago. We'll call him "Peter" for security reasons.
Peter uses the Bible to describe the landscape.
Thomas reported he said, "You know there's that parable, the sower went out to sow and the seeds feel on stony ground, this is North Africa, in those days was quiet resistant and stony. The religion and the culture were unsympathetic to anything that was foreign and Christianity was considered to be the religion of the Europeans."
Peter believes the arrival of satellite TV and the Internet have dramatically changed people's perception of Christianity.
"Today in North Africa on TV you can hear native Arab Christians talking about their faith, who are mature Christians, answering questions, involved in debates, you can hear different points of view, the Christian point of view in your own living room or in the privacy of your own bedroom."
Emboldened by God's power, Thomas says Algerian Christians are now on a mission to take the gospel to the four corners of the globe.
"God has put in our heart to be able to send 1,000 missionaries by the year 2025. I really believe that maybe one day America will end up with some Muslim convert missionaries coming to reach out to the Muslims there and in other parts as well," says Pastor Qurahmane.
CANADIAN JEWS "MORE AFRAID" by Dalit Halevy
The Bnei Brith Canada organization published its annual report on anti-Semitism in Canada this past weekend, and according to the Shalom Toronto website, it paints a mixed picture.
The organization says there has been a 21.6% rise in vandalistic anti-Semitic acts in the past year, and the number of violent incidents rose by 7.7%. However, there has been a 13.9% decline in the number of events classified under "harassment." The total number of hate acts against Jews was 1,274, a 5.3% decline compared to last year.
"The current level of anti-Semitism in Canada as compared with data from a decade ago shows a leap of 49%," said Bnei Brith Director Frank Diamant. "Jews of all ages are subjected to hate acts at work, in school and even in the playgrounds," he added. Despite Canada's efforts - both domestically and internationally - to deal with anti-Semitism, the prejudices still exist in the country."
Diamant added that the statistics are only part of the picture, and that there is an added element of fear in the present complaints. "Although the total number of events has declined by a small amount, in the past year, Jew-hatred has become a normative discourse that is no longer perceived as negative."
"Anti-Semitism is perceived by many people in the Jewish community as a thing of the past," he explained. "However, the use of the word 'Israel' instead of 'the Jews,' along with a flood of Holocaust imagery in the context of the Jewish state and its supporters, creates dread."
"In the campuses, the problem has been worsened by a slew of decisions made by student organizations, which have created a situation in which Israeli Apartheid Week essentially lasts all year long," Diamant elaborated. "At the same time, Jewish students and Israel supporters are labeled racists, Nazis and baby killers. This kind of harassment has sidelined everyone and silenced them."
While the Canadian government has been tough on anti-Semitism, he claimed, police and prosecutors have exhibited an unwillingness to pursue complaints - so that Canadian Jews generally prefer not to report anti-Semitic incidents at all.
NORTHERN AFRICA (ANS) -- A Christian revival is touching the northernmost reaches of Africa. In a region once hostile to the gospel, tens of thousands of Muslims are now following Jesus. Muslims across Northern Africa are converting to faith in Jesus Christ in record numbers.
Speaking in a story by George Thomas for CBN News, Regent University graduate and filmmaker Tino Qahosh said, "What God is doing in North Africa, all the way from actually Mauritanian to Libya is unprecedented in the history of missions." Qahoush has spent years traveling the region to document the transformation.
He said, "I have the privilege of recording testimonies and listening to firsthand stories of men and women, of all ages where they can be sitting in a room and see the appearance and the presence of God appear to them in reality, like a vision, some of them gave me stories of how they carry on a conversation, it's not just a light that appears."
He added that he sometimes feels jealous. "How come Jesus is visiting the Muslim world at this time and age and we don't hear that happening in the traditional Christian community?"
Thomas said his interviews confirm what experts say is a profound move of God in the predominantly Muslim nations of Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia.
From the shores of Casablanca in Morocco to Tripoli, Libya, experts say the growth of Christianity, especially in the last 20 years, has been unprecedented. And now that growth is also evident in the North African nation of Algeria.
Pastor Salah leads one of the largest churches in Algeria. Some 1,200 believers attend the church, and 99 percent of the population is Muslim.
"In fact we never thought the Algerian church would grow so big," Thomas reported Salah said. He pointed out that every new Christian in his church came from a Muslim background. Since the church opened, they have baptized an average of between 150 to160 believers per year.
Zino, a former Muslim, was invited to attend Pastor Salah's church by a friend.
What he observed transformed him. "I saw Algerians worshiping God with all their hearts and it touched me."
Others, like Farhat who is also a former Muslim, speak of miraculous encounters. He says he was illiterate and couldn't read the Bible when he accepted the Lord, but then God made a change.
"Since then I've read the Bible and understood the Word of God. This is just an example of what God has done in my life and this is the case of many people here in Algeria."
Thomas said even though Algeria is overwhelmingly Muslim the government has given protestant churches the freedom to register their congregations.
"It is the first Muslim Arab government who recognizes officially churches from Islam," said says Youssef Qurahmane, a leading Algerian Pastor.
He added that the government harass and intimidate Christians from time to time, but the level of persecution is nothing like it was 20 years ago. In fact, Qurahmane is seeing God open unprecedented doors.
Thomas reported he said, "God has given to us many opportunities to witness at the police stations, at the courts, and in fact one time I went to the police station and they gave me 45 minutes to speak about Jesus! Just imagine yourself, they are all Muslims sitting and telling me, 'Tell us about Jesus!'"
But Algeria and the countries of North Africa weren't always open to the gospel.
A veteran missionary in the region says things were very different some years ago. We'll call him "Peter" for security reasons.
Peter uses the Bible to describe the landscape.
Thomas reported he said, "You know there's that parable, the sower went out to sow and the seeds feel on stony ground, this is North Africa, in those days was quiet resistant and stony. The religion and the culture were unsympathetic to anything that was foreign and Christianity was considered to be the religion of the Europeans."
Peter believes the arrival of satellite TV and the Internet have dramatically changed people's perception of Christianity.
"Today in North Africa on TV you can hear native Arab Christians talking about their faith, who are mature Christians, answering questions, involved in debates, you can hear different points of view, the Christian point of view in your own living room or in the privacy of your own bedroom."
Emboldened by God's power, Thomas says Algerian Christians are now on a mission to take the gospel to the four corners of the globe.
"God has put in our heart to be able to send 1,000 missionaries by the year 2025. I really believe that maybe one day America will end up with some Muslim convert missionaries coming to reach out to the Muslims there and in other parts as well," says Pastor Qurahmane.
CANADIAN JEWS "MORE AFRAID" by Dalit Halevy
The Bnei Brith Canada organization published its annual report on anti-Semitism in Canada this past weekend, and according to the Shalom Toronto website, it paints a mixed picture.
The organization says there has been a 21.6% rise in vandalistic anti-Semitic acts in the past year, and the number of violent incidents rose by 7.7%. However, there has been a 13.9% decline in the number of events classified under "harassment." The total number of hate acts against Jews was 1,274, a 5.3% decline compared to last year.
"The current level of anti-Semitism in Canada as compared with data from a decade ago shows a leap of 49%," said Bnei Brith Director Frank Diamant. "Jews of all ages are subjected to hate acts at work, in school and even in the playgrounds," he added. Despite Canada's efforts - both domestically and internationally - to deal with anti-Semitism, the prejudices still exist in the country."
Diamant added that the statistics are only part of the picture, and that there is an added element of fear in the present complaints. "Although the total number of events has declined by a small amount, in the past year, Jew-hatred has become a normative discourse that is no longer perceived as negative."
"Anti-Semitism is perceived by many people in the Jewish community as a thing of the past," he explained. "However, the use of the word 'Israel' instead of 'the Jews,' along with a flood of Holocaust imagery in the context of the Jewish state and its supporters, creates dread."
"In the campuses, the problem has been worsened by a slew of decisions made by student organizations, which have created a situation in which Israeli Apartheid Week essentially lasts all year long," Diamant elaborated. "At the same time, Jewish students and Israel supporters are labeled racists, Nazis and baby killers. This kind of harassment has sidelined everyone and silenced them."
While the Canadian government has been tough on anti-Semitism, he claimed, police and prosecutors have exhibited an unwillingness to pursue complaints - so that Canadian Jews generally prefer not to report anti-Semitic incidents at all.
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