An 87-year Catholic priest from the Island of Java in Indonesia has converted to Islam after he woke up from a 17 month long coma.
The priest claimed God spoke to him and showed him the beauty of the heavens.
The priest who has lived and preached on the island for more than 43 yrs suffered a cardiac arrest while helping local volunteers to fix the roof of his own church and fell from a two stories high but managed to survive and come out of his coma only to convert to Islam.
“I know nothing of Islam. Never once have I read the Quran but God spoke to me and asked me to follow him to the heavens and the Holy light shone through my entire being and behold the golden gates of heaven appeared before me and God told me his name and it was Allah” told the newly convert to a journalist of the Kalimantan Press.
His conversion to Islam took most of his church followers by surprise, but interestingly enough, already half of his christian followers have showed interest in converting to Islam. “If Allah is the true God, I don’t want to be misled in the wrong direction on judgement day. I trust Father Eduardo. We all believe in him” explains one of his followers.
The priest who is still under medical attention has already ordered the construction of a new mosque and his followers are already hard at work to find the funds necessary for the task. “We owe it to Father Eduardo for all he has done for us” comments one of the devotees of the old catholic church.
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