Catholic Priest Converts To Islam After Waking Up From Coma

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October 14, 2014 4:09 PM

The priest was reported to have suffered a cardiac arrest while fixing the roof of his church along with other volunteers, falling two stories high and managed to survive

A Catholic priest, Eduardo Vincenzo Maria Gomez from Spain, who woke up from a 17-month long coma has converted to Islam after he claimed 'Allah' spoke to him and showed him “the beauty of the heavens”.

87-year-old Father Gomez has lived and preached on the island of Java in Indonesia for over 43 years is said to be very fluent in Javanese and various dialects of different ethnic groups that make up the island and a well respected figure amongst religious groups of the area.

The priest was reported to have suffered a cardiac arrest while fixing the roof of his church along with other volunteers, falling two stories high and managed to survive. He came out of his 17-month coma a religiously changed man.

Gomez told local press,

The physician who took care of the priest at the South Jakarta’s Metropolitan Medical Centre where he was in coma said, father Gomez miraculously suffered no spinal injury from the fall and may be able to walk soon.

“This must be the strongest 80-year old I have ever seen. His bones should be smashed to pieces” said physician Jim Won May, who has practiced medicine for over twenty years.

World News Daily Report says, his conversion to Islam took most of his church followers by surprise, but interestingly enough, already half of his christian followers have showed interest in converting to Islam. “If Allah is the true God, I don’t want to be misled in the wrong direction on judgement day. I trust Father Eduardo. We all believe in him” explains one of his followers.

The priest who is still under medical attention has already ordered the construction of a new mosque and his followers are already hard at work to find the funds necessary for the task. “We owe it to Father Eduardo for all he has done for us” comments one of the devotees of the old catholic church, that is now for sale.

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