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Rima Fakih, who it is believed to have been the first Muslim-American woman to have been crowned Miss USA, has converted to Christianity.
She made the conversion last month in anticipation of her marriage to Wassim Salibi, a wealthy music producer and a Maronite Christian. The ceremony will take place in Lebanon this week, according to Christian Today.
A tweet she posted in late March gave a broad hint of the direction in which she was moving — a verse from Philippians:
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me pic.twitter.com/RSTZ9IJD3Z
— Rima Fakih (@RimaFakih) March 30, 2016
And she followed that one up with this beautiful message:
— Rima Fakih (@RimaFakih) March 30, 2016
When the beauty was crowned MissUSA in 2010, she was quoted as saying, “I’d like to say I’m American first, and I am an Arab-American, I am Lebanese-American, and I am Muslim-American.”
Fakih was reportedly criticized by other Muslims for even entering the pageant.
She’s not the first person in her family to convert.
“My brother-in-law is Christian, and he (and my sister) baptized their two sons,” she told The Huffington Post in 2010. “I have an uncle who converted to Christianity, and he’s a priest now.”
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