How Their Lives Changed
- Hilda's Testimony (Maronite)
- Monthir's Testimony (Islam)
- Faten's Testimony (Coptic Orthodox)
- Mark Gabriel's Testimony (Islam)

Hilda's Testimony (Maronite)
The Testimony of Hilda From Beirut
I was born in Beirut in 1965. When I was 9, the war started, and with it, the long devastating years of all the Lebanese started. With this war, and my house in the midst of demarcation line, questions began to haunt me day and night. Is this life? Death was our daily bread, tears and destruction everywhere.
My parents, being from Christian background, could not answer my questions as they themselves did…

Monthir's Testimony (Islam)
From Darkness To Light
I was born and raised in a conservative Muslim family. Ever since I was ten years old I’ve been reading the Quran on a daily basis and performing my Islamic duties such as fasting and prayer. Then when I was twelve, I started going to the Friday prayer at the mosque next door every week.
As years passed by, my knowledge in Islam increased. I was extremely religious but I had no true relationship with the God I was worshi…

Faten's Testimony (Coptic Orthodox)
Listen to Faten's testimony who is from Egypt who is a former Coptic Orthodox.
Very well, as if it's today. And that was more than 25 years ago. That are almost 24 and a half years ago that even if I have to convert to be a Muslim to keep my child, I'm willing to do that anyway. I kept my child. When she was one year old, my husband left me and he came to America planning that he will send, to take, take me with him, me and my child. And…

Mark Gabriel's Testimony (Islam)
The Story of M A Gabriel The former professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Disillusioned at Al-Azhar
Fifteen years ago I was the imam of a mosque in the city of Giza, Egypt, which is where the famous Egyptian pyramids are located. (Imam of a mosque is a position similar to pastor of a Christian church.) I preached the message of the week on Fridays from 12 to 1 in the afternoon, as well as performed other duties.
On…