14 March 2019

Muslim-turned-Christian refugees in the Netherlands face threats

.... Faraidoun Fouad fled Kurdistan in northern Iraq. Once safely arrived in the Netherlands, he came into contact with Christianity.

“I converted in 1999,” he said. “In 2002 God called me to reach out to my own people. Directly after my conversion to Christianity I received the first threats. People who I thought were my friends, became my enemies.”

It got to a point where he had to flee the asylum seekers center he was staying in to go live with a family he knew from church. Although the center is no longer a safe place for him, he still returns there on a regular basis to evangelize.

“Even Muslims who are not very conservative told my wife that they would kill me,” Fouad said. [Crux] Read more