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This Easter weekend Vancouver's Catholic archdiocese will take in a record number of new adult converts: more than 600. After decades of decline, numbers are also much higher in Toronto and in many U.S. cities.

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Raised in a moderate Muslim family in the Middle East, Kiwi Mottahed was once almost obsessed with watching online “anti-Christian” videos.

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The videos, which are widespread, did not invoke hatred of Christians. But they did vociferously argue that Christian theology was wrong and Islam was the only right way to God, said Mottahed, a University of B.C. business student.

At age 22, Mottahed — who spent more than a decade jetting back and forth with his parents between the United Arab Emirates and Canada — has been a vigorous........

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