Jeff
12-16-2014, 08:52 AM
Just some more nice people to do business with huh, yup get caught carrying a bible get your head cut off, great folks :rolleyes:
Unconfirmed reports of a new decree imposing the death penalty on anyone caught smuggling Bibles into Saudi Arabia has many Christian ministries and support groups on edge.
Practicing any religion other than Islam has long been illegal in the desert kingdom, and that includes rules against foreigners bringing in any type of religious material that does not conform to the royal family’s strict Wahhabi brand of Sunni Islam. Foreign nationals living in Saudi Arabia are often detained for purely religious reasons, sometimes resulting in deportation.
But applying capital punishment, which in Saudi Arabia often means death by beheading, to Bible smugglers would signal a new level of persecution even for the Saudis.
Several Christian missionaries said they were seeking to confirm a recent report by the Virginia-based Heart Cry Missionary Society (http://heartcrymissionary.com/middle-east-blog/post/saudi-arabia-imposes-death-sentence-for-bible-smuggling) that a new death penalty law has been adopted citing an “official statement” in Arabic on a Coptic Christian website (http://www.coptstoday.com/Copts-News/Detail.php?Id=89530) called CoptsTo
http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/death-penalty-for-smuggling-bibles/
Unconfirmed reports of a new decree imposing the death penalty on anyone caught smuggling Bibles into Saudi Arabia has many Christian ministries and support groups on edge.
Practicing any religion other than Islam has long been illegal in the desert kingdom, and that includes rules against foreigners bringing in any type of religious material that does not conform to the royal family’s strict Wahhabi brand of Sunni Islam. Foreign nationals living in Saudi Arabia are often detained for purely religious reasons, sometimes resulting in deportation.
But applying capital punishment, which in Saudi Arabia often means death by beheading, to Bible smugglers would signal a new level of persecution even for the Saudis.
Several Christian missionaries said they were seeking to confirm a recent report by the Virginia-based Heart Cry Missionary Society (http://heartcrymissionary.com/middle-east-blog/post/saudi-arabia-imposes-death-sentence-for-bible-smuggling) that a new death penalty law has been adopted citing an “official statement” in Arabic on a Coptic Christian website (http://www.coptstoday.com/Copts-News/Detail.php?Id=89530) called CoptsTo
http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/death-penalty-for-smuggling-bibles/