Costly discipleship
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article38966
- Author
- Farmer, Rachel
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2016 February
- Author
- Farmer, Rachel
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2016 February
- Issue
- 140
- Page
- 20-21
- Notes
- Article describes the experience of a young woman, born in Yorkshire to a Muslim family who immigrated from India in the 1960s. "Miriam" left her family at the age of 17 to escape an arranged marriage and was taken in by an Indian family who had converted to Christianity from the Sikh faith. She advised her family through the police that she was safe. "She has been back to see her parents once with her husband and daughter, on the advice of the 'Church' but there can be no regular contact. Miriam said, 'You don't choose your natural family and we don't choose our spiritual family either. I have a new family now and it's the Church. I lost my identity when I left home, but I have found a new identity in Christ'." "According to one Nigerian priest, 'Joseph', Islam is a triangle of political, social and economic points, so when someone leaves Islam they lose everything. 'I'm not from a Muslim background, but we had a convert who lost everything when he left the Islamic faith,' he said". "Joseph has seen Christians suffer physically for their faith". "However, he said the persecution of Christians in the north had strengthened the faith of the younger people".
- Subjects
- Christian converts from Islam - Great Britain
- Christian converts from Islam - Nigeria
- Christianity and other religions - Islam - Great Britain
- Christianity and other religions - Islam - Nigeria
- Location
- General Synod Archives