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Saudi Arabia
Posted by Derrick
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Where do I start with this one? The country with no church. A country which bans all Christian worship except in ex-pat communities (and there they had better watch what they do). the Bible is banned and thousands are burned every year along with crosses and other Christian items. This is a country which has the holiest of holies for the Islamic faith but refuses to allow other religions.
There is no religious freedom in this Islamic kingdom. Public non-Muslim worship is forbidden, and conversion to Christianity - seen as apostasy - is punishable by death. Most Christians are foreign workers; although they are allowed to worship privately on their compounds, they sometimes face difficulty. Twelve Filipino Christians and a priest were arrested while attending a service in a private home in October 2010. Saudi believers fear being open about their faith, even with their family. There were reports of several Christians being physically harmed for their faith in 2010.
There are also reports of Saudi money (and there is an awful lot of that) helping to fund schools in other countries and that these schools teach the powerful (and very hardline) Wahabi faith to the children. If this were to be the case it it would be very scary.
We need to pray that the government will start to be more tolerant of the Christian faith and that our brothers and sisters there will be free to worship in a way they want to.
There is no religious freedom in this Islamic kingdom. Public non-Muslim worship is forbidden, and conversion to Christianity - seen as apostasy - is punishable by death. Most Christians are foreign workers; although they are allowed to worship privately on their compounds, they sometimes face difficulty. Twelve Filipino Christians and a priest were arrested while attending a service in a private home in October 2010. Saudi believers fear being open about their faith, even with their family. There were reports of several Christians being physically harmed for their faith in 2010.
There are also reports of Saudi money (and there is an awful lot of that) helping to fund schools in other countries and that these schools teach the powerful (and very hardline) Wahabi faith to the children. If this were to be the case it it would be very scary.
We need to pray that the government will start to be more tolerant of the Christian faith and that our brothers and sisters there will be free to worship in a way they want to.
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