A festival honoring Arab integration in Chile. They are mainstream now.
Month: August 2012
Arabic Dance Course – Ecuador
Now, onto Ecuador. Arabic Dance, like elsewhere has fully penetrated the culture.
Islam in Colombia
This is troubling!
But if you know some Spanish and go to the YouTube video page this video is taken from you will read there is a discussion of whether or not Arabic is required to become a Muslim.
While it is not required, it is so heavily emphasized that Islam, thankfully, has the drawback of being difficult to convert to.
With a major Evangelical Revival occuring in South America, the reverse is true. Evangelical missionaries try to learn the language of the natives. The natives are not required to learn the Hebrew or Greek of the Old and New Testaments, respectively.
The upshot is that converting to Evangelical Christianity is very easy.
Arab Evangelical Church in Venezuala
I had to remove video. Pity! It was good. But I left the post up to show that there are Evangelical Arab Churches in Venezuela.
Fernando Campos, an Evangelical preacher/singer, in an Arab Evangelical Church in Venezuela.
At (2:51) you will see a female Pastor Asuan El Dbassi, a name so Arabic it hurts.
Two things should be obvious
1) In Islam, there are no female clerics, at least not according to the hadiths.
2) In Christianity, there are many denominations which allow for female clerics. This congregation seems to be Pentecostal.
For this who think Islam can win in South America, look at this video. BTW: The girls wearing head scarves (1:26) seem to be doing more so from ethnic cultural identification than religious sensibilities. These are Christians, and so hijabs would not be a requirement. The women do not wear them elsewhere.
South America is having a massive Evangelical Revival. So, one will notice Evangelical Arab Congregations which would be rare in other parts of the world.
28 November 2017 – Had to remove video, which no longer worked.
