More than 3,500 Muslim refugees in Germany baptised into Christian faith
All Germany's 20 Protestant state Churches and the five largest free Churches were surveyed by the German evangelical organisation Idea.
The survey found that most of those baptised are former Muslims from Iran, Iraq and Syria.
There were more than 2,500 baptisms in the Evangelical Free Churches and more than 1,000 in the Federation of Pentecostal Churches. There were 850 baptisms in the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church and 700 in the Union of Evangelical Free Churches, made up of Baptist and Brethren churches.
According to nine of 20 Protestant Churches, at least 1,000 refugees have been baptised since 2014....