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Monarch offers land for church building in Bahrain
January 05, 2009
King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa of Bahrain has answered a request from Pope Benedict XVI for a plot of land on which a new Catholic church can be constructed. The little country already has one Catholic church, dating back to 1939. There are about 80,000 Catholics in Bahrain; most are guest workers from the Philippines living in a mostly Islamic society.
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