ICC note: There have been thousands of conversions in Bangladesh recently, despite the increase in religious persecution across the country. Christian Post reports 91,000 Muslims have converted to Christianity in the past six years. There is now an estimated 1.6 million Christians in Bangladesh, which equals roughly one percent of its population. Persecution in Bangladesh comes in various forms such as killings, beatings, rape, and torture. Although conversion is not outlawed, converts still face severe persecution and isolation in Bangladesh, where a Muslim majority predominates.

07/22/2016, Bangladesh (Christian Post) – Even though persecution against Christians in Bangladesh is on the rise, so is the number of Muslims converting to Christianity in the south Asian nation.

Just as in other countries where the population is dominated by a Muslim majority government, Christians in Bangladesh are at risk of being killed or persecuted because of their faith in Jesus Christ.

But while nearly 90 percent of Bangladesh’s population of 165 million people is Muslim, Christianity is gaining traction.

According to the human rights organization Christian Freedom International, it is estimated that as many as 91,000 Muslims across Bangladesh have converted to Christianity in the last six years, even though apostasy in many Muslim cultures is punishable by death.

Pastor Faruk al-Ahmed, a Christian convert from Islam who has been preaching since the mid-1990s, personally attested to the rise of Christianity in his own community in Northern Bangladesh during an interview with the British news site Express.

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