The Price to Pay
Subtitle: A Muslim Risks All to Follow Christ
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: October 3, 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco, California, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781586175993
Description: During his military service, Muhammad, a young Muslim Iraqi from a leading Shiite family, discovers to his dismay that his roommate is a Christian. Muhammad tries to convert his roommate, but he is the one who is converted.
In Islam changing one's religion is a crime, and Muhammad's family does everything possible to make him renounce his new faith in Christ. After threats and blows come prison and torture. Muhammad, who has become Joseph by his baptism, experiences a long Calvary but does not give in. Finally, he is taken from prison by relatives who threaten to kill him if he does not resubmit to Islam. They shoot him and leave him for dead.

The Price to Pay is the true story of Joseph Fadelle's conversion to Catholicism. He risks everything--family, friends, his inheritance and home, and even his life--in order to follow Christ. In a dramatic and personal narrative style, Fadelle reveals the horrible persecution endured by Christians living in a violent and hostile Muslim world.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; label: I.
title: Conversion; title: Massoud; title: The Call; title: Solitude; title: Fatwa; title: The Trial; title: A Sad Celebration; label: II.
title: The Exodus; title: "The Church Asks You to Leave"; title: Secret Preparations; title: Farewells; title: In Exile; title: Alarm; title: Baptism; title: "Zeal for Your House Will Consume Me"; title: State of Grace; title: Fratricide; title: From One Flight to Another; title: Respite; title: Farewell to the Near East; title: Viaticum; title: "French, the Language of God"; title: Epilogue; title: Notes