Brazil has a massive Arab community, probably as much as 15 million. Luckily for Brazil, their Arabs are heavily Maronite Christian, who tend to be moderate – unlike Chile, whose Arabs are anti-Zionist Palestinians.
However, Brazil also has an incredibly large Evangelical Christian community, which is decidedly pro-Israel. At this time, the Evangelicals have the ascendancy.
The video above is a religious internet show, aimed at the Evangelicals of Brazil, about Bible prophecy happening in Israel.
The title is Unveiling the Prophecies: The Gospel to the Nations – 2.
This distinguishes Brazil from most of Latin America, indeed, most of the world.
Habib’s was founded by a Portuguese-born baker, Alberto Saraiva, who had no particular ties to the Middle East himself, got the idea early in 1988 after an ailing old man of Arab descent applied for a job in his bakery. With no job at hand for the man to apply to, but upon learning that he had been a cook back in his home land, Mr. Saraiva decided to open a small fast-food restaurant focused on Middle-Eastern fast-food, unheard at the time in Brazil, believing the success could rely on the novelty of it, and hired the man. … The first Habib’s restaurant was opened later that same year.
This elder gentlemen is Elia Morise, an Egyptian, now a Christian, who evangelizes Muslims. He is lecturing in Brazil. The younger man is named Mehdi, a Moroccan, who converted to Christ, and had to flee to Brazil.
South American Christians do what many modern Christians have forgotten how to do: Evangelize!
If Palestinians are sent to Brazil, or Chile, or Argentina, they will hear the gospel. This is something which is hidden from them inside the Ummah (the Arab world).
In the Arab world, street preaching, any attempt to convert a Muslim, will lead to riots, destruction, and death. It is not even a case of cowering the Christians. An individual Christian might be willing to chance death in order to win souls for Christ; but if the penalty for doing so is the destruction of his home, neighbors, and church, then he would be less inclined to do – not for his own safety, but for the safety of others.
However, once the Muslim is in South America, the tables have turned. In South America, street preaching is common, especially by Evangelicals. There the Muslim has no option to riot, to destroy an offending village, particularly when 90%+ of the population is Christian (whether Catholic or Evangelical).
So now the Muslim will be presented with something that he never saw in his home country: Street preachers inviting him to accept Christ.
The Muslim has no social defense against this. In Egypt or Saudi Arabia, the Muslims could riot. Not in South America.
So when I tell you that Palestinians brought to South America would eventually assimilate, trust me.
This ministry (above) sends out missionaries to the Muslim world.
Elia Morise also baptizes people in the Jordan River in Israel.
Posted on YouTube: January 19, 2014
If this amazes you, then check out the above video directly on YouTube: (Click Here). The writing is in Arabic, and it is affiliated with the Christian Arabic Church.
The Christian Arabic Church YouTube channel: (Click Here). Their headquarters are in Richmond, Virginia; but obviously they do work in Brazil as well. This is their website: (Click Here).
If you think this is merely an American outreach, remember that there are 15 million Arabs in Brazil. True, half are Maronite Christian, and the rest are usually Syrian Christian; but there are Muslims in Brazil. Nowhere near as many as the imams claim, but enough. They are a mission field. Brazilian Christians not only seek to evangelize the Muslims in Brazil, but the Muslims in the Arab world.
So do not worry. Any Palestinians sent to South America would probably convert in a generation or two.
