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cbayer

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Sun Mar 31, 2013, 12:34 PM Mar 2013

The joys and rigours of converting to another religion

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/03/31/the_joys_and_rigours_of_converting_to_another_religion.html

The diversity of the GTA and its influx of immigrants make it fertile ground for religious conversions.


Nichole Hosein, a French teacher in Hamilton, converted from non-practising Christianity to Islam five years ago.

By: Noor Javed News reporter, Published on Sun Mar 31 2013

Monika Pakos found God while driving through Mississauga.

It wasn’t quite how the 22-year-old imagined such a life-changing moment would take place.

She had been researching religion, and specifically Islam, for two years after a university class on world religions sparked an interest. And, lately, thoughts of conversion had crossed her mind.

But Pakos, who grew up in a Polish Catholic household, wasn’t quite sure what she had to do to take the final leap of faith. So, as she drove to her job at a restaurant last November, she called up a local Islamic centre.

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