Saudis sign deal with Vatican to build churches [Rev 17]

Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement with the Vatican to build churches for Christian citizens, according to Egyptian news media reports.

Online newspaper Egypt Independent on Wednesday said the agreement was signed during a visit by Jean-Louis Tauran, the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue at the Vatican, during his visit to the kingdom in April.

Al Jazeera could not independently verify the contents of the purported agreement.

In an interview with Vatican News, Tauran confirmed a declaration had been signed which paved the way for further dialogue, but did not mention building future churches in Saudi Arabia.

Tauran met high-level officials including King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on his visit.

"During my meetings, I insisted very much on this point, that Christians and non-Muslims are spoken of well in schools and that they are never considered second-class citizens," Tauran told Vatican Radio after his return...

Saudi Arabia, birthplace and home of the Islamic religion, is a country in transition. Facing an existential threat from Islamic rival Iran to the West/South and a hostile Russian bear approaching from the North (angry at low oil prices), the Wahhabi dominated country is undergoing a makeover few could have foreseen (i.e allowing women drivers, Israeli partnerships, and even Islamic religious reforms, etc.) Formerly the sponsor of worldwide persecution of all non-Muslims (especially Christians and Jews), she is now seeking some level of rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church after 1400 years of animosity between the two leading world religions.

The Roman Catholic Church, birthplace and home of the Roman Catholic religion, is also an organization in transition. Facing existential threats from low western birth rates, a post-christian neo-pagan Europe, pedophilia among Catholic Priest and Nuns, etc. The former guardian of Christian doctrine in the early 300s, quickly morphed into a corrupt hierarchy of Nicolaitans seeking to advance their worldly kingdom by the early 400s. In the 700s, the Roman Church became the Holy Roman Empire, persecuting anyone that did not tow the line of infallible Popes, Theotokos, transubstantiation, indulgences, purgatory, priestly celibacy, and other heresies. A millennium later, the organization that once resembled the "Bride of Christ", resembles a gaudy harlot seeking an oil rich sugar daddy desiring her services.

Both organizations recognize that they must pool together in order to survive. Saudi Arabia knows that only Western military might can save Islam's birthplace and progeny from the hands of their Islamic brothers, and Rome knows that without an influx of Islamic aliens and money, the Roman Catholic Church is set for unprecedented decline. Where will this new "Chrislamic Church" take us?

Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Pray for the ruler of Saudi Arabia. His actions relative to Christianity in Saudi are beyond belief. He has decided to join the Western World by deed and action. He has also made himself the number one target for death by Muslim Radicals.

He is a Muslim but a brave man of vision. He is most worthy of our Christian prayers.

My prayer is that he succeeds in his actions.
Perhaps one day a Muslim and Christian can pray together side by side in Saudi.

ps
When I was working in Oman, Sadat of Egypt had just went to Israel and addressed the Kinnest in Israel. This was a mission of peace. I was most excited by this and went to speak with my boss an Omani Sheik. He in the past was an ambassador to the United Nations and a very educated man. Sheik Said did not share my enthusiasm. Although he was much in support of what Sadat had done. he said, “Sadat is a dead man.” Two years later the Muslim Brotherhood killed Sadat.

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