Watu 80 kutoka dini ya kiislam wamebatizwa kwa mpigo mjini Hamburg - Ujeruman
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At
least 80 migrants in Hamburg have converted to Christianity from Islam in a
mass baptism, but some question their motives.
In German Father’s Day is celebrated
every year, not on the same date but rather on the Thursday 40 days after
Easter. Father’s Day means more to Germans than simply celebrating their
fathers but also for many religious Germans it is celebrating the Christian
father on Ascension day. This year saw 80 men and women from
Afghanistan and Iran baptized and taking their first communion Stern
reports.
“Today is a great day for us,”
said Mahshad, one of the new converts. Mahshad came with her husband Amir
to Germany from the Islamic Republic of Iran where converting to Christianity
is illegal and can result at best in social exclusion and at worst, the death
penalty. The pair currently live outside of Hamburg in an asylum home and
were invited to Germany by a Persian-Christian organization called “Alpha and
Omega” who helped them apply for asylum in Germany.
The couple are not unique among
migrants converting to Christianity. Breitbart London has reported many cases of migrants
becoming Christians after they reach Europe like “Christopher” in
Vienna who came to Europe from Afghanistan and said that he had wanted to
convert for years but was afraid of the consequences.
However, Migrant converts like
Christopher are finding that becoming Christians in Europe may not spare them
from reprisal from Muslims. Christopher told an
Austrian paper that he feared walking around in Muslim dominated neighbourhoods
in Vienna and said his conversion, even in Europe could potentially be a “death
sentence.”
Migrants who have converted and live
in asylum homes are also under constant pressure, bullying, threats and
intimidation from Muslims. Many Christians have had to flee asylum homes because of threats or acts of
violence toward them. Some have even suggested that the situation for
Christians is so dangerous that European governments should
consider segregating them from Muslims.
At the mass baptism not everyone was
pleased about the migrant’s conversion. One elderly woman witnessing the event
said: “That’s ridiculous, who are they trying to fool here?” casting doubt on
the sincerity of the converts. For many migrants, asylum approval is not
guaranteed, especially from countries considered safe like Iran or Afghanistan.
Converts to Christianity, because of the harsh punishments for
doing so in the Middle East, are often approved by the German
government for asylum.
Pastor Babajan who conducted the
baptisms said he has strict guidelines to make sure those being baptized are
legitimate. He said: “If I have the impression that someone does not believe
from the heart, then I do not baptize him,” and acknowledged he had come across
migrants who wanted baptism simply for asylum reasons but maintained, “whoever
does not believe will not baptized.”
New convert Mahshad expressed her
worries about living at the asylum home along with her former co-religionists.
She said she and her partner have to pretend they are going to the gym when
they go to a Sunday service and “it has been shown that we can not openly
profess Christianity ourselves in Germany. Here the Muslims are stronger
than the Christians. It is this Islam we fled.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/07/migrants-mass-baptism/
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