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Saudi Arabia deports Christians for celebrating Assumption
September 26, 2016
Saudi Arabia has deported 27 Catholics, all Lebanese Maronites, who were arrested for celebrating the feast of the Assumption in a private home.
Saudi religious police raided the home in Al Khafij where the celebration was taking place, and charged those involved with "un-Islamic prayer." The raid and the deportations appear to violate a Saudi policy, announced in 2006, that Christians would be allowed to practice their own faiths in private.
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