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First Catholic church for Saudi Arabia
« on: March 20, 2008, 03:48:07 AM »
First Catholic church for Saudi Arabia
Published: March 18, 2008

Negotiations are underway to build the first Catholic church in Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah lending his support for its construction.



Vatican Radio reports the Vatican and the Saudi government are currently in talks to allow the church despite the kingdoms ban on allowing the construction of any non-Muslim place of worship. No religion other than Islam is allowed to schedule public services, and even the possession of bibles, rosaries, and crucifixes is forbidden.

Saudi Arabia is the only country on the Arabian Peninsula without a Catholic church despite the 800,000 Catholics - virtually all of who are foreign workers. While Saudi Arabia does not have formal diplomatic relations with the Holy See, King Abdullah became the first reigning Saudi monarch ever to visit the Vatican last November.
 
Commenting after his meeting with the Pope Vatican officials confirmed the Pontiff pressed for permission to open a Catholic church in the kingdom. Holy See spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said that opening a Catholic parish in the Islamic land would be "a historic achievement" for religious freedom and a major step forward for inter-religious dialogue.

The apostolic nuncio to Kuwait , Qatar , Yemen , the United Arab Emirates , and Bahrain , Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, is reportedly the lead Vatican negotiator in talks with Saudi officials.

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http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=6247

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/wsaudi117.xml

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3571835.ece


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Re: First Catholic church for Saudi Arabia
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2008, 06:59:57 AM »
Nindot ni kay makasimba na ang mga OFW diha.

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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2008, 07:14:13 AM »
Yehey, makadala na ko ug Bible.

Here, we can not worship openly.

We worship in discrete like the apostles.

Ang among Bible dire bisaya or tagalog. Abi nila ug novel. Hehe.

Ang nakaparat sa tagalog or bisaya nga Bible kay lisod basahon compara sa English, mura paminawon ug robot, magtinagsa. Unya naay mga word nga lawm kaayo ug mag pusnga ka sa pagtugkad (words borrowed from Mike).

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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2008, 07:15:46 AM »
Kinahanglan pud diay mo ug dictyionary ana nga bisaya-english or tagalog-english kuya :)

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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2008, 07:37:20 AM »
This is good. Murag it will be a new beginning for peace between islam and catholic.
Sus ming take ug dakong risk ni nga King da, kay he's taking his considerations man. Pero unsa kaha ang kapalit? I mean unsa kaha ang iya pong gi asked ug favor sa Pope? hmmm, I'm wondering!?

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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2008, 05:52:30 AM »
This is good. Murag it will be a new beginning for peace between islam and catholic.
Sus ming take ug dakong risk ni nga King da, kay he's taking his considerations man. Pero unsa kaha ang kapalit? I mean unsa kaha ang iya pong gi asked ug favor sa Pope? hmmm, I'm wondering!?

I believed this is an initiative by the King to buy favor/support from Christians against the Jews. Historically, Muslims and Jews were never been friends, but Muslims have a great respect for Christians. In the Quran, Christians are called "people of the book" that means the bible. Muslims are allowed to celebrate with our festivities, they are allowed to come inside the Church, eat our food and marry christians, but they are not allowed to marry Jews.

Now that Arabs are secretly supporting Barak Obama in the upcoming US polls, it makes sense. Hmmm.

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