ARwandan pastor has made the record of conducting the largest conversion of Christians to Muslims on Tuesday, August 25.
Africa Metro reports that the pastor, Salim Mikdad, converted all 480 members of his congregation to change their faiths.
According to one of
the members, they were at the church for when their pastor forced them
to convert to Islam. Pastor Mikdad also converted the church premises
into a mosque during the conversion ceremony. This is said to have
happened after an Islamic cleric had preached to Pastor Mikdad and
succeeded in converting him to Islam.
According to Africa
Metro, Rwanda is a predominantly Christian country but of late, has seen
a gradual rise in its Muslim population. About 56.9% of Rwandans are
Roman Catholic, 26% are Protestant, 11.1% are Seventh day Adventist and
only 4.6% are Muslim, most of them being Sunni.
Islam started growing
in Rwanda after the country’s 1994 genocide as both Catholic and
Protestant churches helped to make the killing of about 800,000 people
possible by giving moral sanction to the murders. Churches have longed
played ethnic politics themselves, favoring the Tutsi during the
colonial period then switching allegiance to the Hutu after 1959,
sending a message that ethnic discrimination was consistent with church
teaching.
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