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Christian foreign workers in Saudi Arabia are allowed at times to have a single copy of the Bible for their personal use, although many have complained in recent years that their copy was shredded upon arival at customs. Smuggling a Bible into Saudi Arabia, or possesing more than a single copy, is a capital offense. Giving one to a muslim constitutes proseletizing, which is an especially offensive capital offense. Check out this report from the US Commission on religious freedom:
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200505\FOR20050519b.html
"According to the commission, Saudi Arabia bans "all forms of public religious expression other than that of the government's own interpretation of one school of Sunni Islam."
In recent weeks, at least two separate groups of foreign Christians were reported to have been arrested in the kingdom.
The religious police, or muttawa, arrested 40 Pakistani Christians after raiding a home in Riyadh where the group was celebrating mass on April 23.
The bishop of the Pakistani diocese of Lahore, Lawrence Saldanha, issued a statement Wednesday urging President Pervez Musharraf's government to act immediately on behalf of its citizens.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan earlier also wrote to the government, urging immediate action and saying it understood the group included women and children.
A week after the Pakistani were arrested, the mutawwa raided a private prayer meeting in the capital attended by some 60 Ethiopians and Eritreans and arrested five elders, according to Compass Direct, a news service that focuses on religious persecution.
International Christian Concern reported recently that an Indian Christian, Samkutty Varghese, had been arrested on the streets of Riyadh last March after members of the religious police found a Hindi-language Bible in his bag."
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