IslamOnline.net follows the changing face and of European Muslim converts, and the development of new organizations and meetings where new EU Muslims can share and discuss their experiences and faith. NEMA, the Native European Muslim Assembly, recently launched its second annual meeting for EU Muslim converts at the beginning of April. The meeting lasted for…
Former Episcopal minister Ann Holmes Redding has been ordained in the Episcopal Church for nearly 30 years, but her ordainment came to an end when she was defrocked this week. According to a report, Redding has been both a practicing Christian and Muslim for the past three years. “Had anyone told me in February 2006…
There was a time when Richard Fairclough would kneel to pray in Church. But today when the 57-year-old prays it is at the mosque, because he is one of scores of people in South Wales who have given up Christianity to become a Muslim. Having taken the name Abdur Rahman he now helps others to…
A discussion on the sensitive topic has been tabled for the next meeting of the Church of England’s governing body amid fears that some clergy are ignoring their traditional missionary role. Some members of the General Synod believe Christ ordered all Christians to recruit nonbelievers and followers of other faiths, and they want to see…
The genetic signatures of Spaniards and Portuguese are providing evidence of the mass conversion of Muslims and Sephardic Jews to Catholicism during the 15th and 16th centuries. Eleven percent were found to have DNA reflecting Moorish ancestors, according to geneticists. The finding bears weight on two different views of Spanish history – that Spanish civilization…
