This is a mission to spread Christianity.
Read the press release in the article
“SINCERE DESIRE THAT THIS EDIFICE WILL ASSIST THE PAPAL REPRESENTATIVE IN CARRYING OUT HIS MISSION TO THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AND TO THE LOCAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY”
There are quite a few Christian’s in the UAEA.
Over the centuries there have been thousands of missionaries of one belief or another that went to the middle east to convert Arabs, Muslims, Islamists.
Their survival rate was not all that good. But this time it will be different?