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#453 Doing Catholic Apologetics with Muslims - Charbel Raish

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Charbel Raish, founder and chief executive of Parousia, one of Australia’s leading Catholic media apostolates joins us for a discussion of his early embrace of Islam and his subsequent rediscovery of Catholic Faith. Cy Kellett: Charbel Raish from Sydney, Australia. Thanks for being with us. Charbel Raish: Thanks for having me. Cy Kellett: From Parousia Ministries. Charbel Raish: That’s right. Cy Kellett: And is that, that’s- Charbel Raish: Parousia. Parousia. Yeah, it was, we’re known as Parousia Media for a long time, but then we dropped the word media because we do s…

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Sharbel Raish from Sydney, Australia. Thanks for being with us.

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Thanks for having me.

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From Perusia, ministries.

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And that's Perusia.

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Perusia.

0:15.0

Yeah, we're known as Perusia media for a long time, but then we dropped the word media

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because we do so much more than media.

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So it's Perusia now, just Perusia.

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Uh-huh.

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And just tell me real quick what you do there in Australia with Perusia.

0:27.0

We focus on evangelization and faithfulation.

0:29.0

So we do that, you know, by talks, events, Bible studies, online courses.

0:34.0

And we've launched an Academy very recently, so excited about that.

0:38.0

That's fantastic.

0:39.0

Yes.

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That is great.

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And how do you end up in Sydney?

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How do you end up in Sydney, Australia?

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I was born and raised there.

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But yeah, my mother, it comes from Lebanon in the Middle East.

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And my father comes from Colombia, South America.

0:52.0

They married in Lebanon as teenagers and moved to Sydney in the 70s.

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