Use of Name "Jesus" In the Islamic Qur'an (Koran)

Use of Name "Jesus"

In the Islamic Qur'an (Koran)

Uses the Name Jesus 28 Times;

Calling Jesus "The Messiah"

In the Islamic Qur'an (Koran)

Uses This Title Messiah: 11 Times;

Speaks of the Gospel of Jesus

In the Islamic Qur'an (Koran)

Uses the Word Gospel (of Jesus): 12 Times;

As of 2010, approximately 300,000 are converting to Christianity daily, five-days per week. This become 70-75 million per year.

China alone is having about 40,000 converts per day.

Total population

 

2,501,396 every year, according to the World Christian Encyclopedia[1]

Another estimate says in Africa, every year, 6 million people convert to Christianity[2].

The following is a list of notable people who converted to Christianity from a different religion or no religion. This article addresses only past voluntary professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations such as Marriage. Certain people listed here may be lapsed or former converts, or their current religious identity may be ambiguous, uncertain or disputed. Such cases are noted in their list entries.

From IslamAbo of Tiflis, a Christian activist and the Patron Saint of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia.[3]

Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad - Egyptian former Muslim sheikh.[4]

Nonie Darwish, an Egyptian American writer and public speaker.[5]

Akbar Gbaja-Biamila is an American football player.[6]

Mohammed Hegazy the first Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to seek official recognition of his conversion from the Egyptian Government.[7]

Italian journalist Magdi Allam converted to Roman Catholicism during the Vatican's 2008 Easter vigil service presided over by Pope Benedict XVI.[8]

Born into a Muslim Batak family, Indonesian Prime Minister Amir Sjarifuddin converted to Christianity in 1931, upon which his fervently Islamic mother committed suicide.[9]