Friday, March 14

SAUDIS CONTINUE TO PROHIBIT CHURCHES
"On Thursday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent federal agency, complained that a new State Department list of countries that severely limit religious freedom omits several that deserve censure, including U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. The commission's annual reports say that religious freedom 'does not exist' in the Gulf Kingdom."

And apparently, anyone who complains to the Saudis is labeled a "fanatic".

"Those who talked (about churches in Saudi Arabia) are church people and they are, unfortunately, fanatics," Sultan said, according to Monday's Okaz daily newspaper. "We are not against religions at all ... but there are no churches — not in the past, the present or future." Link to AP story

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