Focus: SAUDI ARABIA (2/5/2009)
by Staff Source: www.opendoorsusa.org SAUDI ARABIA: * A prominent foreign pastor in Saudi Arabia has fled Riyadh after a member of the mutawwa’in, or religious police, and others threatened him three times in one week. Two of the incidents included threats to kill house church pastor Ye...
Focus: EGYPT (2/4/2009)
by Staff Source: www.opendoorsusa.org EGYPT: * Following a brutal raid on six Christian brothers and their café because they had opened for business during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, a judge on Jan. 22 sentenced them to three years in prison with hard labor for resisting arrest and as...
Focus: SAUDI ARABIA (2/3/2009)
by Staff Source: www.opendoorsusa.org SAUDI ARABIA: * Five months after the daughter of a member of Saudi Arabia’s religious police was killed for writing online about her faith in Christ, Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested a 28-year-old Christian man for describing his conversion and cr...
SAUDI ARABIA: * A prominent foreign pastor in Saudi Arabia has fled Riyadh after a member of the mutawwa’in, or religious police, and others threatened him three times in one week. Two of the incidents included threats to kill house church pastor Ye...