At a Berlin church, Muslim refugees converting in droves | The Big Story
BERLIN (AP) — Mohammed Ali Zonoobi bends his head as the priest pours holy water over his black hair. „Will you break away from Satan and his evil deeds?“ pastor Gottfried Martens asks the Iranian refugee. „Will you break away from Islam?“
„Yes,“ Zonoobi fervently replies. Spreading his hands in blessing, Martens then baptizes the man „in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.“
Mohammed is now Martin — no longer Muslim, but Christian.
Zonoobi, a carpenter from the Iranian city of Shiraz, arrived in Germany with his wife and two children five months ago. He is one of hundreds of mostly Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers who have converted to Christianity at the evangelical Trinity Church in a leafy Berlin neighborhood….
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