Dear Brothers and Sisters in Our Lord Jesus Christ, already Christians and Muslims together account for and amount to nearly 4.5 billion souls of the 7.7 who live on Planet Earth. Christians at 2.5 billion, and Muslims at 2 billion. Statistics and Projections suggest that Islamism, owing to a higher birth rate - at the same time that some careless Christians are aborting and contracepting themselves into oblivion, foolishly disregarding God's Law and their duties to the Gospel of Christ and the Kingdom's increase all over the globe - will reach 3.5 billion by 2050, around the same number of Christians worldwide at the time as well. When the world's population is near 10 billion, over 7 billion, then, will be Christians and Muslims. The recent data also showed Atheism is a dying and passing phenomenon. The future belongs to Religion, but it is up to us Christians, who must henceforth work with the greatest urgency on that, to ensure it will be the Christian Religion, and that the Islamist Religion is overcome, by securing millions more conversions of Muslims to Christ every single year.
"How many Muslims are there? Where do they live?
There were 1.8 billion Muslims in the world as of 2015 – roughly 24% of the global population – according to a Pew Research Center estimate. But while Islam is currently the world’s second-largest religion (after Christianity), it is the fastest-growing major religion. Indeed, if current demographic trends continue, the number of Muslims is expected to exceed the number of Christians by the end of this century."
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/09/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/The hour is later than we think. Even Pew's projections don't tell the whole story, and other studies show it will be worse. Would even 1 million more annual conversions of Muslims to Christ be enough to prevent Islamism from gaining superiority over Christians? Hardly. 1 million conversions a year is merely 30 million in 30 years. Only something like at least 10 million more conversions every year - which comes to 300 million conversions by 2050 - would at least ensure Christianity can still maintain Christ's Peace rather than Mohammed's Reign of Terror in the world for at least a decade longer. For then Christians would be 3.8 billion and Muslims 3.2 billion, the future being changed from the earlier prediction. But in order for Christianity to really Triumph over Islam, we need something like a 100 million conversions every year, in order that the plague and scourge of Radical Islamism may be completely eradicated and extirpated from the Earth within 3 decades. This could avoid World War III. That is the challenge for Catholic Missionaries ahead of us.
Strategies for Ending and Winning what could break out as World War III, by launching a spiritual prayer and evangelism Crusade first, dedicated to winning our Muslim friends to salvation in Jesus Christ:1. Beginning with Jesus Christ Our Lord (or Isa-Al-Masih, as our Muslim friends call Him, in Arabic - they consider Him a Miracle-Working-Prophet, and even the Virgin-Born-Messiah, but not the Divine Son of God): We can begin with the Life and Testimony of Jesus Christ Our Lord Himself, since Muslims already accept Him as Prophet, and even the Messiah, and born of a Virgin. Our Evangelism can begin with the words of the Prophet Isaiah, written 700 Years before Our Lord,
"Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a Virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel.", that is, God with us. Since they believe in Prophesy, we can point out the Virgin Birth was foretold, and that the Primary Reason for the Virgin Birth was that Emmanuel, that is, God with us, was going to become Incarnate and dwell with us. So the Virgin Birth is a proof of the Divinity of Christ, according to Prophesy. St. Thomas Aquinas tells us that to be successful in the work of Evangelism, we must argue from one article of Faith - which the opponent concedes - to another, which he still denies. Thus, with Protestants, we argue from Christ's Divinity to the Eucharist. With Muslims, we can argue, on the strength of Prophesy, from Christ's Virgin Birth to His Divinity as Incarnate Son of God.
2. From the Messianic Prophesies showing the Messiah was always to be Divine, not a mere human prophet: This is the proof adduced by Our Divine Redeemer Himself, to the Pharisees, and the Jews, concerning whom He had implied (Mat 16), that faith that He was a mere prophet did not please Him truly, but only the saving faith that confessed Him to be the divine Son of the Living God, as St. Peter did; and for which St. Peter was named the Rock of the Church.
In Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 22, we read
"[41] And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them, [42] Saying: What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They say to him: David's. [43] He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying: [44] The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool? [45] If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?. Here, the Divine Son of God, relying on a Prophesy of King David (whom Muslims accept as a Prophet, calling him Dawood in their Quran), in Psa 109, written 1000 B.C, brilliantly argues and forcefully demonstrates that the Messiah is the Divine Lord Himself, not a mere human son of a king or a mere prophet, but the Divine Son of God and the Lord of David.
Such that, as we read in the same chapter,
"[46] And no man was able to answer him a word; neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions." Following Our Lord, and St. Paul also, we Christians must similarly use the Sacred Scriptures and the Messianic Prophesies prudently and wisely in our Christian Evangelism, to save and to win souls for our Redeemer. So we can show from these words of Prophets written and preserved centuries earlier, that have come true, that the Messiah was always meant to be Divine. Some will claim the original texts of King David have been lost, but that is an ahistorical absurdity, as they are preserved independently and separately by Jews and Christians alike, were quoted explicitly by Our Lord Jesus Christ, and are even admitted as his by various secularist scholars.
[3] Beginning with Our Blessed Virgin Mother Mary (or Miryam, as She is called in the Quran - the only Woman mentioned in it; and to Whom a whole Chapter is dedicated in it); as also with Our Lady of Fatima; Fatima being a town in Portugal named after a Muslim woman who converted to Christ, married a Christian Prince and became a Catholic princess. Not a coincidence, as Abp. Sheen said:This third prophetic approach may end up being the most successful of all. It is based on Our Lady's own approach, arguably, and the reason She chose that specific town in Portugal, for Her famous Apparition there; as Abp. Sheen (prophetically?) argued. Indeed, various Evangelists and Missionaries have already reported "We are in the first time ever of mass conversions of Muslims to Christ". And we have every reason, in this internet and digital media age, as untold millions can now read the Bible and the Gospels, the Church Fathers and early Christian History, and also have access to critiques and questioning the Quran, to believe that will increase and be sustained in the years to come.
But as for the argument, here is one possible way to make it - we've already seen the argument from the Perpetual Virginity of Mary, which (ironically) the Muslims concede (though most Protestants deny): Mary was a Virgin in giving birth and throughout Her Life. That His Mother should be so special indicates and proves that the Son being born is also altogether special and unique. His specialty can only be that He was not mere man, but Perfect God becoming Perfect Man, that necessitated His Mother remaining a Perpetual Virgin. But other arguments can also be made from Our Lady's Historical Apparitions, confirmed by numerous public miracles before countless eyewitnesses (in fact, Muslims often come and pray before Our Lady's Shrines; some even ask Her to intercede for God with them; and often we see that in time, these same Muslims to salvation in Christ; Our Lady obtaining the greatest gift, and highest benefit, of salvation in Her Divine Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, for them) where Our Lady has often proved the supernatural origin of the Rosary, for e.g. (where we confess Her to be Mother of God, and thus Her Son as True God), and in other ways, by special favors and signal Graces, shown and proved that She is God's First Witness to the Catholic Faith and to the True Incarnate Divinity of Christ Our Lord.
And therefore many Catholic Evangelists are of the view that Our Lady will be instrumental in bringing Muslims to faith in Her Son. Thoughts on all this from people here?
Edit: Article:
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/armstrong/muslims-are-converting-to-christianity-in-record-numbers"National Catholic Register, Patti Armstrong: “We are in a time of the first ever mass conversions of Muslims,” Father Mitch Pacwa SJ told me in a phone interview. “God is doing a mighty work among them.”
Pacwa is a host for EWTN radio and TV, a frequent pilgrim guide to the Holy Land and is fluent in 13 languages including Arabic. He is considered an expert on the Middle East and produced the DVD Christianity & Islam: Are We at War? and co-authored Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics.
Pacwa said he began hearing talk of conversions to Christianity around 2005 on Al Jazeera Television, the Arabic news satellite TV channel with 80 bureaus around the world. “They were reporting on the mass conversions of Muslims—as many as 6-8 million—in sub-Saharan, Africa, and they have repeated the warning every year,” he said. “I’ve confirmed it with Africans I know who have told me again and again about conversions in places like Nigeria, Uganda, Mali … that’s why Boko Haram has become so active. They are actually quite scared and trying to terrorize. But the very act of terrorizing people has ended up with people becoming more disgusted with Islam."
