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68% of teens and 85% of college students have been approached by someone who tried to share another religion with them (based on a recent survey of more than 2,000 Jewish students from all denominations) |
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Missionaries have expanded their efforts to include a covert “peer-to-peer” proselytizing model that targets Jewish high school and college students. |
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Missionary groups spend more than $250 million annually toward this effort. Jews for Jesus alone has an annual budget of $18 million and 125 staff members. |
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Over 900 missionary groups in North America target Jews for conversion, and there are over 400 “Hebrew Christian synagogues.” Many groups use deceptive and manipulative proselytizing techniques. |
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There are over 100 “Messianic Congregations” in Israel, and over 38 in the former Soviet Union. |
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More than 300,000 of the 1.4 million Jews who currently identify with a religion other than Judaism consider themselves Messianic Jews. |
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Over the past 25 years, more than 275,000 Jews worldwide have been converted specifically by missionaries who use deceptive tactics |
