{"id":7315,"date":"2017-08-02T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T12:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7315"},"modified":"2017-08-02T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T12:35:27","slug":"malawi-saladins-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7315","title":{"rendered":"MALAWI: Saladin\u2019s Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: FEBC, July 31, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Saladin is from Malawi in Africa, and had been a Muslim for over 38 years before becoming a Christian. Saladin held a number of positions in local Muslim leadership. He was the secretary of the Muslim council in the eastern region of Malawi, and also worked as the vice president of the Muslim Teachers Union.<\/p>\n<p>While in these positions and practicing his Muslim faith, he kneeled down to pray late one evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I was doing this I saw a vision. I saw Muslims, a large multitude of Muslims, who were weeping, and I saw my brother and I saw my uncle, and they were filled with sorrow. I saw that they were crying, saying, \u2018Saladin, please rescue us!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saladin woke up and wrote down what he\u2019d just dreamt about, and from there, he left Islam in search of the truth. Soon he found Jesus Christ and accepted him as his Lord and Savior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter I accepted Jesus Christ, I was rejected by my family and treated as an outcast. The Muslim Teachers Union told me I was going to be killed according to Sharia law. I told them that I wasn\u2019t there to attack them, I am here to preach about the one true, living God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It continues to be a struggle for Saladin, yet he now goes door to door telling people to accept Jesus Christ. He has been threatened and scorned, yet God has protected him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.febc.org\/local-muslim-in-malawi-converts-to-christianity\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.febc.org\/local-muslim-in-malawi-converts-to-christianity\">Read full story<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.febc.org\/news\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.febc.org\/news\">more news from FEBC<\/a>, a radio broadcasting ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb For another article about God raising up and sending out messengers, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/2099968\/secret-lives-chinese-missionaries-northern-iraq\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/2099968\/secret-lives-chinese-missionaries-northern-iraq\">The Secret Lives of Chinese Missionaries in Northern Iraq<\/a> (South China Morning Post).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: FEBC, July 31, 2017 Saladin is from Malawi in Africa, and had been a Muslim for over 38 years before becoming a Christian. Saladin held a number of positions in local Muslim leadership. He was the secretary of the Muslim council in the eastern region of Malawi, and also worked as the vice president &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MALAWI: Saladin\u2019s Struggle<\/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-7315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315","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=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7316,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions\/7316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}