{"id":6657,"date":"2016-09-21T15:24:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2016-09-21T15:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:24:37","slug":"usa-nabeel-qureshi-battling-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6657","title":{"rendered":"USA: Nabeel Qureshi Battling Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Christian Post, September 8, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Nabeel Qureshi, an author, global speaker, and prominent Christian convert from Islam who was once part of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, announced in a post on his Facebook page last week that he has been diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer and explained that the prognosis was \u201cquite grim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a ten-minute video posted to YouTube [September 7], Qureshi expanded on the details of his diagnosis, revealing that he has stage four stomach cancer. According to statistics from the American Cancer Society, the five-year survival rate for individuals with stage four stomach cancer is four percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/nabeel-qureshi-has-4-percent-chance-surviving-5-years-stage-iv-stomach-cancer-169286\/pageall.html\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/nabeel-qureshi-has-4-percent-chance-surviving-5-years-stage-iv-stomach-cancer-169286\/pageall.html\">Full story with pictures<\/a>. You can also follow his journey and pray with others at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/prayingforNabeelQureshi\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/prayingforNabeelQureshi\/\">Praying for Nabeel Qureshi<\/a> Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Editor\u2019s note: I just finished Nabeel\u2019s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabeelqureshi.com\/seeking-allah-finding-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.nabeelqureshi.com\/seeking-allah-finding-jesus\/\">Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus<\/a> and found the apologetic\/friendly debates between Nabeel and David Wood most useful in my dialogues with atheists as well. It is all a bit philosophical; perhaps too much so, for some. If you want some less heady tips on talking to Muslims (and others), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dts.edu\/thetable\/play\/interacting-muslims\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.dts.edu\/thetable\/play\/interacting-muslims\/\">check out this conversation<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/commanetwork.com\/halal-food-became-20-billion-hit-america\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/commanetwork.com\/halal-food-became-20-billion-hit-america\/\">find a Halal food court<\/a> and start a conversation of your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Christian Post, September 8, 2016 Nabeel Qureshi, an author, global speaker, and prominent Christian convert from Islam who was once part of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, announced in a post on his Facebook page last week that he has been diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer and explained that the prognosis was \u201cquite grim.\u201d In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USA: Nabeel Qureshi Battling Cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6658,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions\/6658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}