Shaykh Abdulkarim Javier Orobio reverted from Catholicism to Islam at the age of 17, first Sunni, one year later he became Shi'ah. After finishing university he went to Qom to study Islamic Sciences for 12 years and he graduated in Kalam. He translated around 20 titles from English, Persian, Arabic into Spanish. He currently runs the Kauthar Islamic  Foundation in Cali city in Colombia which is an organization for the propagation of Shi'ism in Colombia.

Sheikh Jehad Muhammad Wassef Ismail was born in a Sunni household in Kuwait in 1964. He moved to Australia at the age of 14 where he completed his BA in Interpreting and Translation. He then decided to pursue his religious education at Al-Azhar University in Egypt. But then he met Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Hussein Kashif Al-Ghita’ and became Shi’a and subsequently went to Qom to pursue his Islamic Studies.