Source: Mission Network News, March 15, 2018
The church in Algeria has been growing, but [as] Christian Aid Mission’s David Bogosian shares, “Many who become Christian don’t go directly from Islam to Christianity. They go from Islam to agnosticism to atheism and then to Christianity. So, a huge number of people that are coming into the church have first been secularized. The trend of secularization happening in the Muslim world is probably the fastest growing demographic, ideological, religious demographic change in history.”
This is going on all over the Arab world in places like Iran, Turkey, and Libya… any place that’s experienced or has been affected by radical Islam or Islamic extremists. And between the Arab Springs and the continued Islamic violence against other Muslims in the name of a common god, a lot of people have begun deconstructing their beliefs. They’re questioning their faiths and the ideas which have served as foundations for their lives.
“And that’s actually the first step into the arms of loving God,” Bogosian explains. “As odd as that might sound, you know, to go in that direction. It’s actually something that God is using to bring people to himself.”
» Read full story. Another from the same sources reports opposition: Churches Closed in Algeria, Symptom of Uptick in Persecution.