Coptic Priest Convinces Muslims to Christ
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (03/29/08)
Per NationalReviewOnline’s Raymond Ibrahim, Zakorra Botros, Coptic priest, is convincing countless numbers of Muslims to confess Christ as Lord and Savior.
He is named by Islamic officialdom as “Public Enemy #1.” That’s the opinion of Arabic newspaper, al-Insan al-Jadid.
He and fellow missionaries appear on the Arabic channel al-Hayat (i.e., “Life TV”).
With the Koran alongside the Bible, this gospel messenger picks a theme for the telecast. He explores that topic to the nth degree. His style in dynamic, intelligent and convincing.
Islamics call in for dialogue. He provides it most enthusiastically and thoroughly. Often the caller is left speechless because Botros knows his Islam and his Christianity.
Sometimes the themes focus on status of women or the sharia or atrocities encouraged by mosque clerics, and so forth.
“Botros is an unusual figure onscreen: robed, with a huge cross around his neck, he sits with both the Koran and the Bible in easy reach. Egypt’s Copts — members of one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East — have in many respects come to personify the demeaning Islamic institution of “dhimmitude” (which demands submissiveness from non-Muslims, in accordance with Koran 9:29). But the fiery Botros does not submit, and minces no words.”
He claims that thousands of Muslims have come into Christ’s divine grace.
All power to the man.
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