How Their Lives Changed
- Doris's Testimony (Greek Orthodox)
- Ziad's Testimony (Islam)
- Jacqueline's Testimony - a nun (Catholic)
- Hilda's Testimony (Maronite)
Doris's Testimony (Greek Orthodox)
Doris's Testimony
I was born in Jerusalem in 1963 to a Greek Orthodox family, I was the youngest of six sisters, and then a brother was born two years later. In 1969 my family moved to Amman, Jordan, where I attended a Christian missionary school. As a child, I did not attend the Orthodox church regularly. I remember going to church on special occasions like Christmas and Easter. Besides, we lived too far from the church and we did not have a c…
Ziad's Testimony (Islam)
The Road From Damascus
Ziad was born and raised in Damascus, finishing his schooling in this historic capital of Syria. Most of his life, Ziad had been a practicing Muslim like everyone else in his devout family. He would often accompany his father, his three brothers, and some neighbors to the mosque for Friday noon prayers and frequently for prayer on other days. The rest of the five daily prayer times he would observe at home or at work. Not…
Jacqueline's Testimony - a nun (Catholic)
From a Nun's Convent to Biblical Conversion
Forty five years of my life were spent as a Roman Catholic; twenty-two of them as a nun in an enclosed convent dedicated to adoration, reparation and suffering. I believed it was a nun's calling to be a miniature savior of the world like Jesus Christ.
After attending Catholic elementary school for eight years and memorizing catechism which is the Roman Catholic textbook, I believed in my heart that a…
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…