stance against Islam; he remained a Christian, however. Buddhism Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer Lokanatha (Salvatore Cioffi), Italian Theravadin Buddhist missionary monk Pema Chödrön (Deirdre Blomfield-Brown), Tibetan Buddhist nun, mother and grandmother Tsai Chih Chung, Taiwanese cartoonist Patrick Duffy, actor Fabian Fucan, Japanese writer and religious brother in Society of Jesus, eventually converted to Zen Buddhism. Sabina Guzzanti, Italian satirist, actress, writer and producer John Daido Loori, Zen Buddhist rōshi and the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery Nyanatiloka Mahathera (Anton Walther Florus Gueth), founder of Island Hermitage and one of the earliest western Buddhist monk in modern time. Leung Man-tao, Hong Kong writer, critic and host Michael O'Keefe, Irish-American actor, raised Catholic, became a practicing Zen Buddhist in 1981. Christine Rankin, New Zealand politician and former head of Ministry of Social Development. Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean scientist Islam Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Hall of Fame basketball player, author, born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., raised Catholic in New York City where he attended Catholic schools, converted to Islam in 1971 at age 24. Keith Ellison, first Muslim to serve in the United States Congress Everlast, Irish-American rapper and guitar player René Guénon, French philosopher Diana Haddad, singer raised in the Maronite Church Murad Wilfred Hofmann, diplomat John Walker Lindh, American captured as an enemy combatant during the United States' invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001; baptized Catholic, he converted to Sunni Islam at age 16. Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America. (She abandoned Catholicism years before her conversion to Islam) Matthew Saad Muhammad, boxer Peter Murphy, lead singer of Bauhaus Sinéad O'Connor, ordained as a priest in the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church by Michael Cox in 1999; accepted Islam in 2018, becoming Shuhada' Davitt Vinnie Paz, also known as Ikon the Verbal Hologram; American rapper for the underground hip hop group Jedi Mind Tricks Franck Ribéry, French footballer, converted in 2006 to marry his Muslim girlfriend Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer, grew up in a strict Catholic background in Portuguese Mozambique Judaism Abraham ben Abraham, Polish Talmudic scholar (conflicting stories though) B'nai Moshe, Peruvian community of Inca descent which embraced Judaism Bishop Bodo, deacon Campbell Brown, American television news reporter, currently an anchor and political pundit for CNN and a former co-anchor of NBC's Weekend Today Yisrael Campbell, comedian Stephen Dubner, American author Abe Foxman, lawyer, activist and former head of the Anti-Defamation League. Born into a Jewish