Ex-Muslim Converts to Christianity — Episode 2

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Ex-Muslim Converts to Christianity — Episode 2

Joseph Fadelle is a Muslim who converted to Catholicism. Today, I’m telling you the second half of his story, when he miraculously survives an attempted murder by five members of his family. Stay tuned.

After receiving a mystical dream, Fadelle opened the Holy Gospels to the words of Jesus: “I am the Bread of Life: he that cometh to Me shall not hunger.” Then, something extraordinary happened to him, like a violent explosion. He felt in his heart a passionate love for Jesus, although he didn’t know Him yet.

Over time, Fadelle’s conversion was complete and lasting, but it came at a price. According to Islamic law, a Muslim who leaves Islam and becomes Christian should be killed along with those who led to his conversion.

Fadelle sought to conceal his conversion from his family, while avoiding, under various pretexts, to participate in their common Muslim prayers. Finally, he succeeded, through a Christian with whom he had made friends, to attend a church; but the eagerly awaited baptism had still not occurred.

Time went by and in 1992 his father told him he had arranged a bride for him—a girl who was, naturally, a Muslim, called Anwar.

After his marriage and the birth of a son, Fadelle secretly met a foreign missionary in Iraq who agreed to prepare him for baptism. But then something unexpected happened. One day, when he returned from Mass, his wife, who did not understand where he went every Sunday, asked if he had been going to see another woman. Caught by surprise and without thinking about what to say, Fadelle replied that he was a Christian and went to Mass every Sunday.

His wife was totally shocked by the news but, miraculously, said nothing to her folks. Even more, she asked Fadelle to explain what Christianity was. He asked her to reread the Koran, trying to pay attention to the meaning of its words and the doctrine it expressed. As had happened with him, she was shocked, especially with the way the Koran deals with Muslim women.

After reading the Gospels, Anwar secretly began attending Church with her husband and taking religion classes with the missionary.

In 1997, his family finally realized Fadelle had taken a distance from Islam and became suspicious that something was afoot. When the couple went to church, his brothers searched his home and found a copy of the Bible.

The next day, at dawn, Fadelle was taken to his parents’ house. As he entered the main room, he was immediately beaten by his brothers and uncles in the presence of his father. Furious, his father accused him of being a Christian. His own mother shouted, “Kill him and cast his body in the sewer!”

Although he was not killed on that occasion, Fadelle was taken by a cousin to one of Saddam Hussein’s political prisons to be tortured in order to reveal the name of the Christians who had “corrupted” him. For three months, he was severely tortured, lost almost half his weight, and then was released. The family pretended it had all been a mistake but put one of his sisters in his house to watch him.

Finally, in April 2000, the couple and their two children managed to escape to Jordan. But when his family realized he had fled, they started looking for him and found him.

In December of that year, four siblings and an uncle managed to lure him to a deserted place where they demanded that he apostatize from Christianity and attempted to execute the fatwa that condemns a person to death for leaving Islam.

Miraculously, despite being shot at point-blank range, the bullets narrowly missed him and he heard an inner voice telling him to run. Already some distance away, a bullet hit his ankle and he fell in the mud, fainting. His attackers thought he was dead and fled.

Fadelle was taken by a stranger to a hospital and later treated by Christian doctors in his home, but Church authorities ordered him to leave Jordan in order not to endanger the Christian community. He took refuge in France, where he lives to this day.

Christians are harshly persecuted in Islamic countries. Let’s pray for these souls, that they may persevere like Fadelle and others who have endured persecution because of their common sense, such as the Fatima children. May we never take for granted the ability to practice our faith in the public square!

Ex-Muslim Converts to Christianity — Episode 2