Baptist Head Urges Prayers for Muslim Conversion
The head of the Southern Baptist Convention is asking its members to "pray and fast that God will miraculously reveal himself through Jesus Christ to Muslims" at the end of Ramadan, Islam's holy month.
"Just as they can pray and fast, we want to pray and fast that they will find the true way to heaven, and this is through Jesus Christ," the Rev. James G. Merritt, leader of the nation's second-largest Christian denomination, said in a statement yesterday. The theologically conservative Southern Baptists, who have 16 million members in the United States, have provoked criticism by praying for the conversion of Jews and Hindus on the holy days of those religions.
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