While most of us here in America take our decision to follow Christ with moderate interest, people who choose to follow Christ in other countries where there is persecution, really weigh the cost because it could cost them their very lives. The following is part of an article posted at The Christian Post.
For Imad Dabour, persecution is part and parcel of being a Christian in predominantly Muslim North Africa
It is a region that has had next to no church for eight centuries. But now the church is rising again in spite of daily challenges, the pastor told delegates at Cape Town 2010 Tuesday night.
Although there are no exact figures, the number of Christians in North Africa is estimated to be in the tens of thousands.
In the likes of majority-Muslim Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, most Christians are converts from Islam.
In such a hostile environment, growing in their new identity as a Christian is not easy and many new converts face losing their friends and family, Dabour explained.
With persecution occurring daily across the region, becoming a Christian is a “serious decision.”