27 Christians in Saudi Arabia Arrested for Using House As a Church

Saudi authorities have swooped on a house in the eastern province city of Khafji, on the border with Kuwait, and arrested 27 people for using the premises as church last week.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) also confiscated copies of the Bible and various musical instruments from the people during the raid.

The swoop was prompted by a tip from a citizen, reported the English-language newspaper Saudi Gazette.

Those arrested on September 5 were of various Asian nationalities, including women and children, the newspaper reported.

"A citizen reported suspicious activities in the house to the Haia and alleged that an Indian man had turned his residence into a church," said the report.

The arresting authorities supposedly found the men, women and children engaged in religious rituals in one of the rooms, it added.

Public worship of any religion besides Islam is banned in the kingdom, where Sunnis make up more than 90 percent of the population.

A Washington-based Christian religious freedom advocate denounced the raid, saying that it has always been an official policy of Saudi Arabia to continue its "religious cleansing."

"It is the only nation state in the world with the official policy of banning all churches. This is enforced even though there are over 2 million Christian foreign workers in that country," FoxNews.com quoted Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, as saying.

She said that those victimized were typically poor from Asia and African countries with weak governments.

An American Republican Party lawmaker, Frank Wolf said he hoped the U.S. government would speak up about the anti-Christian crackdown in Saudi Arabia.

I wonder what was the nationality of the 9/11 terrorists?

They were all Saudis who were THROWN out of their homeland and promised a BEHEADING if they ever returned...or worse, revenge on their families.

Saudi Arabia: There were beheadings on Friday mornings in the town square. There was one in the little town near our American camp. We were allowed to go, but we PASSED on that one.

Hand choppings also occur on Friday mornings. Those USED to be the very worst for people.
Remember, there were NO trees in Saudi Arabia. THUS, no paper. THUS, no toilet paper. They all used their LEFT had to, er, wipe. THAT IS WHY they eat ONLY with their RIGHT HAND.
Now, of course, the country is AWASH with toilet paper and all the water they want with their GIGANTIC water desalinization plants.

There are "hammams" all over the place for the folks to wash before they enter the mosque for the 5-times-daily prayers. They all have the clean hands now.

TRUE STORY:

I worked with 30 Saudis and by 1:00 P.M. they all stank of B.O. I complained to my Saudi boss.
He explained that all the deodorants from America were scented and Saudi men wore no scents. That was what WOMEN wore.

SO, I got a hold of ARRID extra-dry NO SCENT and brought it to him. He sprayed it, sniffed and OKAYED it.
From then on the 30 men smelled JUST FINE because my boss got them to buy ARRID extra-dry NO SCENT deodroant. My nose was happy!

You KNOW I could NOT have made that up!

I want to go to New Zealand. Australia is a close second. Then Chile.... I would have liked to gone to Turkey, Lebanon, and Israel but I don’t want to visit while things are heated, which means I’ll probably never get to go.

My husband use to vacation in Tunisia. He said it was a crap hole but it was cheap, sunny and they did cater to English and other Europeans who traveled there.

My first trip to France, my husband and I get off the train and a some man walks up to us, lifts up his shirt and starts rubbing his nipples. My husband looks at me and says, “Now you see why we (Brits) hate the French”.

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