Blog Posts on conversion stories

A Muslim Finds the Catholic Faith…Through Geography and Theology by In Defense of the Church on Apr 16, 2012British soccer team owner and prominent philanthropist Ilyas Khan reflects on his conversion.Shareby EDWARD PENTIN from National Catholic RegisterSwiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar was instrumental in helping Ilyas Khan, a British philanthropist...

How Do We Know It’s the True Church? by In Defense of the Church on Apr 13, 2012Article borrowed from Catholic Answers Magazine by Fr. Dwight LongeneckerMy conversion to the Catholic faith began in the world of Protestant fundamentalism. After being brought up in an independent Bible church, I attended the fundamentalist Bob Jon...

Catholic Church New Converts! by In Defense of the Church on Apr 12, 2012The Catholic Church has finally "fallen" in the West says this boastful and deceitful INC member in his blog. Let's see!Good Shepherd School students to be baptized at Easter VigilBy Valerie SchmalzPacifica school youngsters among 170 archdiocesan c...

Sabatina James: Catholic convert from Islam: "Honor Kill" threats, beatings from parents by In Defense of the Church on Mar 15, 2012Let's PRAY for all persecuted Catholic converts. May this courageous woman be blest with joy and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.Sabatina James from captivity to Freedom in Christ in His ChurchFrom Examiner.com - She's changed her name, converted to...

Moira Noonan: My Conversion Story by In Defense of the Church on Sep 5, 2011Moira Noonan left Catholicism for the New Age in the early 1970s after suffering a crippling accident for which her faith seemed to have no answers. She went on to serve as a minister in the Church of Religious Science for 20 years, mastering such di...

Evangelical Laura Locke Conversion Story by In Defense of the Church on Aug 24, 2011Laura Locke Conversion story from WhyImCatholic.comLaura is an educator and freelance writer in Calgary, Canada.The road to Catholicism for new converts is as varied as the personalities of converts themselves. Mine came by means of the sublimely cra...

Methodist Convert to Catholicism Julie Nicholson by In Defense of the Church on Aug 10, 2011Julie NicholsonSource: Why I'm CatholicJulie is wife, mother and Catholic convert raised in the Methodist church. During her walk of faith she encountered many different Protestant denominations before finally calling the Catholic Church home.Looking...

Evangelical Convert: Richard Maffeo from Why I'm Catholic by In Defense of the Church on Aug 3, 2011Richard Maffeo (source: Why I'm Catholic)Richard was born into a Jewish home in 1950. Twenty-two years later, he discovered Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, and served Him in evangelical Protestant churches for more than thirty-two years. In 2005 he was...

A Conversion Story of former Lutheran JoAnna Wahlund by In Defense of the Church on Jul 28, 2011Source: Why I'm CatholicJoAnna is married and has four children. This is her story as a lifelong member of the Lutheran church to Catholicism.I was born to lifelong Lutherans (ELCA) who, of course, baptized all their kids Lutheran. I was baptized on...

Eclectic Convert: Amanda Rose found a Pearl of Great Price by In Defense of the Church on Jul 14, 2011Source: Why I'm CatholicAmanda RoseThis story of conversion is a story of one who longed for God before she understood what she was longing for, who searched for God and for so long he remained hidden from her, but who continued knocking upon the doo...