Father majdi allawi biography meaning
Lebanese Catholic priest Father Majdi Allawi is a convert to Catholicism from Islam....
ACN Release: FATHER MAJDI ALLAWI is a Lebanese Maronite priest who converted from Shia Islam to Catholicism.
A well-known Lebanese priest named Madji Allawi was trying to accomplish by evangelizing Syrian children about two years later.
On August 15, , Feast of the Assumption, he was baptized. He was ordained a priest April 10,
He is the founder of Bonheur du Ciel (Heavens Joy), a non-profit based in Beirut that helps young men with drug addictions, girls who have suffered sexual assaults and the poor.
He also opened the first restaurant to serve Lebanons poor in the city of Bourj Hammoud. He recently spoke with Aid to the Church in Need about his journey of faith:
I met Jesus when I was a little Muslim boy, sitting in at Mass.
She was able to connect him with Father Majdi Allawi, a priest who took him in and arranged for him to stay at a home for disadvantaged boys.I also met him through the Bible, the biggest school of love. I became attached to his soul and his heart and I was very curious to learn more about him.
Father Allawi
At age 9, I started listening during the catechism hour at a Maronite school ; I remember cleaning classrooms and hiding under desks so I could listen to the catechism teachers.
As a Shiite Muslim,