The Catholic Church is in talks with Saudi Arabia concerning opening a church in the country. It would be the first openly non-Islamic church allowed in Saudi Arabia.

But Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to the smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula, such as Kuwait and Qatar, has confirmed that talks are under way to establish formal diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, and to eventually allow for Catholic churches to be built there.

Stuck between rocks and hard places.

“I had a choice: Convert to Islam, pay the tax, or give away one of my daughters,” says a man originally from Baghdad, who was kidnapped two years ago and released only after his family paid a hefty ransom.

The “father of Christian rock” Larry Norman died Sunday morning of heart failure.

You kids can hear some of his stuff on his site. They’re all classics, but I recommend Why Don’t You Look Into Jesus and I’ve Searched All Around for starters.

China is kicking missionaries out of the country during the run up to the Olympics.

Through reliable China Aid sources, which has been collaborated by at least five different mission agencies, the source told CAA on Tuesday that the Chinese government has embarked on a ‘massive’ expulsion campaign to rid the country of foreign Christians

More archeological proof that the Old Testament is accurate.

“This is a fantastic discovery, a world-class find,” Dr Finkel said yesterday. “If Nebo-Sarsekim existed, which other lesser figures in the Old Testament existed? A throwaway detail in the Old Testament turns out to be accurate and true. I think that it means that the whole of the narrative [of Jeremiah] takes on a new kind of power.”

Pope declares that non-Catholics are non-Christians

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Two Protestant church leaders have been sentenced to a year of hard labor for using the “evil cult” to obstruct Chinese law.

The group said Zhang Geming and Sun Qingwen were sentenced on June 29 to “re-education through labor,” an extrajudicial punishment that avoids a trial.