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Turkish Edict Against Christian Converts from Islam

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, April 15, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 16

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Turkish Edict Against Christian Converts from Islam

10, 1850.—
“The Turkish government has officially announced that no Moslem will henceforth be allowed to become a Christian, under penalty of death; that no one will be allowed to teach doctrines subversive of Islamism, and that any foreigner doing so may be arrested and imprisoned. Was it that it might thus break its solemn pledges and revive fanatical hate and strife, that Great Britain interposed to save from destruction the morally and financially bankrupt Ottoman power?”