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Here are some thoughts and ideas for engaging with Muslims at Easter:
Articles
What do you do in Lent? - In this article, Phil R considers the season of Lent, and how we can respond when our Muslim friends ask us, ‘Yes, but what do you do?’ Click here to read.
The Easter conundrum - In this article, Georgina poses the question, 'How can we talk about Easter with our Muslim friends?' The death and resurrection of Christ are crucial to our faith and our understanding of who God is, yet our Muslim friends reject it. How do we deal with this conundrum? Click here to read.
Powerpoints
Why do we celebrate Easter? Click here.
Videos
A video to share with friends - The Prophets' Story takes us on a journey through the lives of several of the prophets and highlights their common message of sacrifice, culminating with Jesus. Click here for the video in English, here for Arabic, here for Urdu and other languages.
And another video to share - this is from Journey into Truth and is a two minute telling of the Easter story. It is in Arabic and has English subtitles. Click here to view.
PDFs
Good Friday and Easter traditions - Download a leaflet to explain Easter and its traditions for an English class or to put inside a card.
Stories to use at Easter - Download this PDF with some stories and explanations to help answer the question ‘Why did Jesus have to die on the cross?’
A letter to a Muslim friend at Easter - Download this letter to go inside an Easter card - adapt it however you like.
Books
Children’s book about Easter in Farsi/Persian - Buy the book on the Bible Society website here.
Holy Injil, Luke - a new translation of Luke from the original Greek into Muslim-idiom English. Buy it here.