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The following is a list of notable people who converted to Christianity from a different religion or no religion. This article addresses only past voluntary professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations such as Marriage. Certain people listed here may be lapsed or former converts, or their current religious identity may be ambiguous, uncertain or disputed. Such cases are noted in their list entries.





Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism that believed in Jesus as the Messiah. The earliest Christians were Jews or Jewish proselytes, whom historians refer to as Jewish Christians. This includes the most important figures in early Christianity, such as the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist, all twelve apostles, most of the seventy disciples, Paul the Apostle and Jesus himself. The split of Judaism and Christianity occurred gradually over the next three centuries, as the church became "more and more gentile, and less and less Jewish".
The Jewish Encyclopedia gives some statistics on conversion of Jews to Protestantism, to Roman Catholicism, and to Orthodox Christianity. According to data from the Jewish Encyclopedia, around 204,542 Jews converted to Christianity during the nineteenth century. The largest number joined the Eastern Orthodox Church, at about 74,500 converts, followed by Protestantism with approximately 72,742, and the Roman Catholic Church with around 57,300.
The 19th century saw at least 250,000 Jews convert to Christianity, according to existing records of various societies. Data from the Pew Research Center show that, as of 2013, about 1.6 million adult Americans of Jewish background—people who were raised Jewish or had at least one Jewish parent—identified themselves as Christians, most of them Protestant. According to the same data, most Americans of Jewish background who identify themselves as some sort of Christian were raised as Jews or are Jews by ancestry. According to a 2012 study, 17% of Jews in Russia identify themselves as Christians.
















Pentecostalism is the fastest-growing religious movement in the world
With its remarkable ability to adapt to different cultures, Pentecostalism has become the world's fastest growing religious movement.
Today, one quarter of the two billion Christians in the world are Pentecostal or Charismatic. Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religion in the world.
The world's fastest-growing religion is not any type of fundamentalism, but the Pentecostal wing of Christianity.
Pentecostalism is widely recognized by religious scholars as the fastest-growing Christian movement in the world, reaching into many different denominations.
One of the most significant transformations in twentieth-century Christianity is the emergence and development of Pentecostalism. With over five hundred million followers, it is the fastest-growing movement in the world. An incredibly diverse movement, it has influenced many sectors of Christianity, flourishing in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and having an equally significant effect on Canada.
Many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history.
Pentecostalism arguably has been the fastest growing religious movement in the contemporary world
At the heart of this religious resurgence are Islam and Pentecostalism, a branch of Protestant Christianity. Islam grew at an annual average of 1.9 percent between 2000 and 2017, mainly as the result of a high birth rate. Pentecostalism grew at 2.2 percent each year, mainly by conversion. Half of developing-world Christians are Pentecostal, evangelical or charismatic (all branches of the faith emphasize the authority of the Bible and the need for a spiritual rebirth). Why are people so attracted to it?.
Pentecostalism grew at 2.2 percent each year, mainly by conversion. Half of developing-world Christians are Pentecostal, evangelical or charismatic.
In 1975, he threw off his atheism and became a Christian.
Because George was a fire-spitting atheist and Julia a devout Christian, their relationship was contentious from the beginning. After eight years, the marriage ended in acrimony.", "On June 7 [1970] I gave in and admitted that God existed", he explained to friends.
the Abillama' amirs, were mostly Christians converted from the Druze faith.
The Abillamah, by the way, also converted to Christianity when the Metn Mountains came to be densely inhabited by Christians, a second conversion for them, given that they already turned Druze earlier, relinquishing the Sunni religion
Other earlier converts were the Abillamah Druze Emirs and Harfush Shiite.
So did other amirs, like the originally Druze Abi-llamah family, which also became Maronite
namely the emirs of the house of Abul - Lama, used to be Druzes before they converted to Christianity and became Maronites
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He was absolved by the Pope for his conversion, which he reversed
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