Source: Mission Network News, March 15, 2018<\/p>\n
The church in Algeria has been growing, but [as] Christian Aid Mission<\/a>\u2019s David Bogosian shares, \u201cMany who become Christian don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n This is going on all over the Arab world in places like Iran, Turkey, and Libya… any place that\u2019s 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\u2019re questioning their faiths and the ideas which have served as foundations for their lives.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd that\u2019s actually the first step into the arms of loving God,\u201d Bogosian explains. \u201cAs odd as that might sound, you know, to go in that direction. It\u2019s actually something that God is using to bring people to himself.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a>. Another from the same sources reports opposition: Churches Closed in Algeria, Symptom of Uptick in Persecution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, March 15, 2018 The church in Algeria has been growing, but [as] Christian Aid Mission\u2019s David Bogosian shares, \u201cMany who become Christian don\u2019t 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 … Continue reading ALGERIA: Secularization, an Unexpected Friend to the Gospel<\/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-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","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=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7768,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}