{
 "id": "source/ewtn-hirsi-ali-christian",
 "class": "source",
 "slug": "ewtn-hirsi-ali-christian",
 "label": {
  "en": "Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she is now a Christian — Catholic News Agency via EWTN"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "تقرير وكالة الأنباء الكاثوليكية (13 نوفمبر 2023) عن إعلان أيان حرسي علي اعتناقها المسيحية في مقالها «لماذا أنا الآن مسيحية»؛ يوثّق تركها الإسلام وإعلانها الإلحاد سنة 2002 ووصفها نفسها الآن بأنها من أتباع الدين المسيحي، وهو أحد مصدرين مستقلين يثبتان مسيحيتها الحالية في سجلّها.",
  "en": "Catholic News Agency report (13 November 2023) on Ayaan Hirsi Ali's announcement of her conversion to Christianity in her essay 'Why I am now a Christian'; it records her 2002 renunciation of Islam and declaration of atheism and her present self-description as a member of the Christian religion — one of the two independent attestations of her current Christianity in her record."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "reference_data",
  "type": "web",
  "title": "Outspoken atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she is now a Christian",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Payne",
    "given": "Daniel"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2023,
     11,
     13
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "Catholic News Agency, as carried by EWTN",
  "URL": "https://ewtn.co.uk/article-outspoken-atheist-ayaan-hirsi-ali-says-she-is-now-a-christian/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "News report read in full on 25 October 2026. It reports that Hirsi Ali, a longtime critic of Islam and for years an outspoken atheist who in 2002 renounced her Muslim faith and declared herself an atheist, said in an UnHerd essay published that week that although she had identified as an atheist for over two decades she now considers herself a member of the Christian religion, quoting her: she turned to Christianity in part 'because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable', and 'Atheism failed to answer a simple question: What is the meaning and purpose of life?' It is used as an attestation independent of the English Wikipedia article for the christian segment in her person record.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-25",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}