{"id":2639159,"date":"2026-08-02T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fulani-muslims-are-turning-to-christ-despite-the-cost\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:26:46","slug":"fulani-muslims-are-turning-to-christ-despite-the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fulani-muslims-are-turning-to-christ-despite-the-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulani Muslims Are Turning to Christ, Despite the Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffulani-muslims-are-turning-to-christ-despite-the-cost%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2639159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article recounts the experiences of christian workers visiting Nigeria, where they meet with Fulani Muslims who are converting to Christianity despite facing notable persecution. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-lisa-blunt-rochester-announces-run-for-us-senate-in-delaware\/\" title=\"Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester to run for US Senate in Delaware.\">shares personal stories<\/a> of individuals like Mohamed,who was born into a Muslim family and became a Christian after seeking answers and speaking with a pastor,leading to his rejection by his family and a hazardous escape. Similarly, Amadu experienced dreams of Jesus, prompting him to convert and flee from his family\u2019s backlash. Jalo, a cattle herder, was inspired by Christian forgiveness and dreams about salvation, choosing to follow Christ despite its high cost. These individuals are now studying at a Bible college, preparing to serve as missionaries and pastors. The account highlights GodS transformative work among persecuted believers in Nigeria and emphasizes hope amid adversity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rounding the corner, I was surprised to see nearly a dozen Fulanis, mainly boys, sitting in a small hallway waiting to speak to us on a warm afternoon in Plateau State, Nigeria. Some smiled, and some just stared at my travel partner and me from Christian Freedom International as we entered the modest office space where we would be interviewing them.<\/p>\n<p>The mainly Muslim Fulani tribe has risen in international awareness in recent years as antagonists in conflicts between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, committing brutal acts of terrorism, violence, and kidnappings of Christians living in villages in Northern Nigeria. I witnessed the widespread scale of these attacks and their effects on Christian communities while visiting Nigeria earlier this year. However, the Fulanis lined up in the hallway were there to tell us a different story of what is happening among some Nigerian Muslims \u2014 they are turning to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven-year-old Mohamed was all smiles as he d his story. Growing up in a Fulani Muslim family, he attended Islamic school where he was instructed to memorize the Qur\u2019an in Arabic, a language he didn\u2019t know. He asked his father why that was. Then he started to ask more and more questions about Islam, which made his parents suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>So, Mohamed did his own research and continued to ask questions. It was at this time that he happened to become friends with a couple of Christians, who were able to tell him about Christianity. When Mohamed\u2019s parents heard he was interested in Christianity, they gathered people in the community to persuade him to deny his growing conviction that the Christian faith was true. Yet, a woman in the community encouraged Mohamed to meet with her pastor \u2014 he did, and immediately gave his life to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>After this, Mohamed\u2019s mother acted very kindly to him and brought him a glass of milk. This was unusual given their strained relationship. Mohamed smelled what he thought to be rat poison in the milk and turned to his mother, asking \u201cMom, are you trying to kill me?\u201d She denied it. He said, \u201cOkay, well, it will be on your head.\u201d After drinking one sip, Mohamed immediately doubled over and started vomiting. His mother said, \u201cLet your God save you\u201d and left him there.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Mohamed lived. When his mother came back to find him alive, she was furious and threatened to shoot him. He rose and started to run away just as his brother picked up a gun and tried to shoot him. In our interview, Mohamed lifted his pant leg to show the scar where a bullet had entered his leg as he escaped. Now, he is class president at his Bible school.<\/p>\n<p>We also met 26-year-old Amadu. One night a few years ago, he had a dream of a man in white, but he couldn\u2019t see the man\u2019s face. Amadu prayed as a Muslim that God would show him what this dream meant. The dreams continued, and he couldn\u2019t shake his need to understand them.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/venezuelas-opposition-held-congress-extends-term-after-disputed-vote\/\" title=\"Venezuela\u2019s opposition-held Congress extends term after disputed vote\">small group<\/a> of Christians at his work would gather on break to pray together. Searching for peace from his dreams, Amadu began to sit in on these gatherings. His Muslim boss told him to stop. But he needed someone to interpret his dreams, and his new Christian friends suggested he meet with their pastor.<\/p>\n<p>This pastor told him that the man in white in his dreams was Jesus. The pastor said, \u201cHe wants to bring you from darkness to light and for you to know him.\u201d Amadu asked, \u201cWhat do I need to do?\u201d The pastor told him he needed to accept Christ and become a Christian, but he told Amadu to go home and really think about it before making the decision because he knew it would be difficult with Amadu\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks later, Amadu came back and announced he was ready to become a Christian. So, the pastor led him through the sinner\u2019s prayer. Amadu started attending church, but something inside him told him not to tell his parents. Two months later, his parents began to ask why he wasn\u2019t going to mosque or saying his daily Muslim prayers. Feeling their increasing scrutiny, Amadu made the hard decision to leave his parents\u2019 house and flee to a different town. Amadu told us if his parents learned he became a Christian, \u201cI will be killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another young man, Jalo, told us that he first became interested in Christianity when he was herding his father\u2019s cattle. He would take the cattle to graze and sometimes go on to Christian farms, where his cattle could eat all the farmer\u2019s crops in a single day. This is devastating to an impoverished farmer.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, time and again, the Christian farmers would call Jalo\u2019s father and say, \u201cIt\u2019s okay, we forgive you, but please don\u2019t do this again.\u201d This was weird to Jalo. He thought, <em>what kind of God do they serve that they forgive like this?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One day he asked the father of his Christian friend, \u201cWhy do you people always forgive when we do harm to you?\u201d His friend\u2019s father replied simply that Christians forgive. It was at that moment Jalo was sure he wanted to be a Christian. His friend told him to go home and that God would send someone to lead Jalo to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Jalo continued herding, and while he was sleeping overnight in a field, he began to have dreams. In one dream, a voice asked him, \u201cYou can have money, you can have everything. But what do you have if you have no salvation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With more determination than ever, Jalo pursued his Christian friend and asked to become a Christian. The friend took him to a pastor who gave Jalo a sober warning about the cost of following Jesus: \u201cYou will lose everything. They will persecute you. Christianity won\u2019t give you anything\u2026 no money, not a wife. The only help we could maybe give you is send you to a Bible school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jalo knew what it was to suffer; he had seen much suffering in the bush. And he was sure he wanted to follow Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Mohamed, Amadu, and Jalo are all enrolled in the Bible college at Christian Faith Institute. There they are <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/article\/on-the-ground-in-the-nigerian-villages-under-attack\">being discipled<\/a>in the Bible and equipped to be missionaries and pastors themselves to be a witness for Christ in some very dark places.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m deeply grateful to have been able to travel to Nigeria with <a href=\"https:\/\/christianfreedom.org\/\">Christian Freedom International<\/a>, a humanitarian aid group serving the persecuted church. Not only did I see first-hand the devastating impact of persecution, but I also saw the reasons to hope \u2014 that despite the darkness there, God is moving in the lives and hearts of those in the most difficult-to-reach and dangerous places.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Names of those featured in this piece have been changed for their protection.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>Arielle Del Turco is Director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, and co-author of \u201cHeroic Faith: Hope Amid Global Persecution.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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