Thursday, December 25, 2008

No Christmas for Christians in Saudi Arabia


Call for Christian Churches to Be Built in Arab Countries

EU Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering [pictured above] called on Arab governments to allow Christian churches to be built in their countries in the same way that mosques can be built in Europe.

In Saudi Arabia, at the end of a tour of Gulf countries, Poettering noted that Saudi Arabia is host to millions of foreign workers, including more than one million Filipinos, most of whom are Christian. "There are hundreds of thousands of Catholics here. We have Christmas tomorrow and they cannot assemble in a church."
(AFP)

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