[img]https://www.sermonindex.net/images/forum/2004/may/featured_news.gif[/img]Riyadh (AsiaNews) - Brian Savio OConnors case is but the latest one in a long series of arrests, torture and abductions endured by Christians in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi regimes oppression of anything that is not Wahhabi Islam is raising fears among the eight million foreigners working in the desert kingdom.Christianity is especially marked for repression. Local sources told AsiaNews that many Christians are in Saudi prisons for religious reasons.In October 2003, the Muttawah, the Saudi religious police, arrested two Egyptian Christians. They were released a month later.In February 2003, a foreign Christian of unknown nationality was expelled for giving an Arabic Bible to a Saudi citizen: foreigners are allowed to have Bibles in their own language, but owning one in Arabic is tantamount to proselytising, a crime that is punished with a jail sentence.
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