Ariana is a Honduran woman who spent years as an evangelical preacher: “but there was always something inside me, a void I couldn’t fill.”
“I served as a pastor in penitentiary centers, worked with street children and people struggling with addiction—those who are often overlooked. I traveled through Central America, the United States, and Haiti giving conferences. In the Dominican Republic, I preached in 72 churches. But something was wrong.
Every time I returned home, I would say to God: ‘What is this? If I’m still serving You, why is my heart empty, and why can’t I fill it with anything?’”
Gravely ill in 2020, she remembered how in 1994 her siblings had told her about Islam. “Then, I met someone online who said, ‘I am a Muslim.’”
❤🩹 “When I heard the Holy Quran for the first time, it made me feel something I had never felt in my life. I began to cry, but not out of pain. I didn’t understand what it was saying, but deep inside, I felt that I had finally found what I was looking for. My tears were tears of happiness.
I don’t know how it happened, but I got out of bed, and without anyone telling me what to do, I bowed my head, knelt down, and placed my forehead on the ground. And it was right there, at that exact moment, that I felt whole for the first time in my life. That emptiness finally disappeared. I felt like the happiest woman in the world.
“I searched online to find out if there were Muslims in my country and discovered iERA in Honduras. There, I found the help I needed.
✨ I realized I had been Muslim since birth, and embracing Islam felt like being born again. Now, perhaps the most challenging part begins: practicing Islam in a country where we are a minority and sharing the message of the true religion.”
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