Top journalist announces he is converting to Christianity

Ruth Gledhill
A leading journalist has announced his conversion to Catholicism with the hashtag #Iamjacqueshamel

A leading journalist has announced on Twitter that he is becoming a Christian.

Sohrab Ahmari, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, announced on Twitter that he is converting to Catholicism.

A tweet referring to the death of Fr Jacques Hamel, murdered by two Islamlists in his church near Rouen, read:

Sohrab Ahmari original tweet Twitter

He subsequently deleted this and pinned to the top of his profile:

According to ChurchPop, Ahmari was born in Iran and moved to the US when he was 13. He studied law in Boston and began working as a journalist after the 2009 election in Iran and the subsequent protests. 

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