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Germany: asylum seekers turn to Christ

Germany: asylum seekers turn to Christ

The Times / Christian Today

While Christian congregations are dwindling across Germany, there was standing room only on Sunday 6 September for morning service at an evangelical Lutheran church in Berlin.

Across Germany there has been a wave of conversions of Muslim asylum seekers from Iran and Afghanistan. Some estimates put the number of baptisms at 12,000 out of the 35,000 Iranians in the country.