ICC Note:

Despite persecution, Christianity is growing exponentially in Bangladesh. Muslims face steep costs to convert including losing family, employment, and social benefits while also risking death and abuse. Younger Muslims and Muslims in rural areas are converting at a rapid rate. Estimates suggest that Christians make-up only one percent of Bangladesh’s population.

3/21/2017 Bangladesh (Pakistan Christian Post) – Christianity is growing rapidly in the mostly Muslim nation of Bangladesh; so rapidly that it’s becoming a problem for Islamic leaders in the country.

“In the last 12 months, more than 20,000 Muslims have converted to Christianity. More than 20,000 have converted and this is becoming a real problem for the Muslims,” one ex-Muslim told Christian Freedom International.

Many of these Muslim converts face immense persecution for leaving Islam.

Pastor Rafiqul Islam is one of the thousands of Christians who left behind their Muslim faith for Christ. He lost his family and his businesses soon after converting, and was nearly beaten to death in the street by leaders of his neighborhood mosque.
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