Earlier this month news reports surfaced out of Saudi Arabia that raised the red flag for Christians, reports MNN.

Todd Nettleton, a spokesman for the Voice of the Martyrs USA, says, "The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia--the top Islamic official in the country of Saudi Arabia--has declared that it is "necessary to destroy all the churches of the region.'"

Nettleton goes on to note that the report hasn't surfaced anywhere except on the Council on Foreign Relations Web site, which was then picked up by The Atlantic.

Ranked second on the Open Doors World Watch List (a compilation of the 50 countries where persecution of Christians is the most severe), the news is not really a surprise. There is no provision for religious freedom in the constitution of this Islamic kingdom.

All citizens must adhere to Islam, and conversion to another religion is punishable by death. Public Christian worship is forbidden; worshipers risk imprisonment, lashing, deportation, and torture.

Evangelizing Muslims and distributing non-Islamic materials is illegal. Muslims who convert to Christianity risk honor killings and foreign Christian workers have been exposed to abuse from employers.

Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, created an implication with his assertion. Nettleton explains, "This was in a meeting with Kuwaiti officials who came to Saudi Arabia.

They were asking this Islamic official ‘What should we do about the churches?' His statement was, ‘There should be no Christian churches on the Arabian peninsula.'"

According to the report, the delegation wanted to confirm Sharia's position on churches. Essentially, Nettleton says, "If you have churches in Kuwait, which they do, they should be destroyed. The interesting thing about this is that there are no churches in Saudi Arabia.

There are no church buildings that are allowed to exist there. So he clearly wasn't talking only for his own country: he was trying to export this ideology to the surrounding countries."

This proclamation could affect churches in Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Nettleton observes that "in most of these countries, we're not talking about a lot of churches; we're talking about a few that are allowed to exist primarily to serve foreigners that are living in that country."

However, the UN Human Rights Council has yet to take a stand on such blatant violations of freedom of religion. How the governments implement this declaration is yet to be determined. "Most of these countries would consider their native population to be 100% Muslim. We could see more persecution, we could see churches closed or destroyed. We just kind of wait to see now."

The concern raised by this view has not escaped notice of the U.S. Government, though.

The most recent International Religious Freedom report (annually issued by the State Department) remarks, "Freedom of religion is neither recognized nor protected under the law and is severely restricted in practice.... The government officially does not permit non-Muslim clergy to enter the country to conduct religious services, although some do so under other auspices and are able to hold services.

These entry restrictions make it difficult for non-Muslims to maintain regular contact with clergy. This is particularly problematic for Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians, whose faiths require that they receive sacraments from a priest on a regular basis."

For the most part, says Nettleton, the Mufti's statement will be buried in the mainstream media. However, he's encouraging believers to ask God to continue to intervene. There are Christ followers in Saudi Arabia who "take great risk to follow Jesus Christ. They take great risk to even talk about their faith with another person.

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2013/April08/083.html

Christ has said it all: they wil kill nd persecute u 4 my sake.

What else do i have to say, islam

....and thatz your source?

The news may be fabricated but it is happening, hatred for christians as it has been written in the Bible.

The truth is, Nobody can stop God, i repeat, Nobody can stop God, persecution is like a fuel that will make the fire of revival to continue to burn in those boiling regions. The more you kill christians, the more souls are added to the Kingdom.

It is a matter of time, just wait.

God bless you.

God2man.

God2man: The news may be fabricated but it is happening, hatred for christians as it has been written in the Bible.

The truth is, Nobody can stop God, i repeat, Nobody can stop God, persecution is like a fuel that will make the fire of revival to continue to burn in those boiling regions. The more you kill christians, the more souls are added to the Kingdom.

It is a matter of time, just wait.

God bless you.

God2man.

keep quiet my friend... na ppl like you make me give up for NL.



Rubbish story. with no valid source. Scaremongering as usual... that's all we seem to like in Nigeria. I think I'm gonna start fabricating junk and see how to make money out of you gullible lots.

hatred for Christians abi? who pack your ancestors inside boat carry go? No be Christians? Or you want to say they are not "true" Christians? when they do it to others, it wasn't "written". na now you wan run mouth....
what else is written in that your bible?

O boy go read your history..

@God2man, I am a great admiral of your posts, however I am disappointed at your response on this issue.

@Areaboy, are we fighting? What is the problem? Ok. If you are not happy about my post. Take it easy and calm down. Check my profile, there is a topic, "Debunking the Myth that Christianity is a white man Religion" Read it and let me see your comment.

MusKeeto, What goes round comes around, i am still alive by God's grace but wish me what you wish for yourself.


@Labo, why are you dissappointed? be specific.

God bless you all.

God2man.

@God2man, Apologies I did not read your first paragraph clearly as that represent my view on this issue. Thank you. God bless you. I do enjoy your posts on fasting. Thanks

This is not new by the way. This comment was made in March 2012. Tons of sources for this same news on the web. Just because its culled from prophecynewswatch and not CNN or BBC doesn't mean its anti-muslim. The CNN or BBC will never carry such stories by the way but thats a different discussion entirely. Besides he is only following what the prophet said and i quote

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ismail ibn Abi Hakim that he heard Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz say, "One of the last things that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said was, 'May Allah fight the jews and the christians. They took the graves of their Prophets as places of prostration . Two deens shall not co-exist in the land of the Arabs.' " - Malik's Muwatta, Book 45, Number 45.5.17

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two deens shall not co-exist in the Arabian Peninsula."
Malik said that Ibn Shihab said, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab searched for information about that until he was absolutely convinced that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had said, 'Two deens shall not co-exist in the Arabian Peninsula,' and he therefore expelled the jews from Khaybar." - Malik's Muwatta, Book 45, Number 45.5.18

proo212: This is not new by the way. This comment was made in March 2012. Tons of sources for this same news on the web. Just because its culled from prophecynewswatch and not CNN or BBC doesn't mean its anti-muslim. The CNN or BBC will never carry such stories by the way but thats a different discussion entirely. Besides he is only following what the prophet said and i quote

Nowhere in any of your two quotes are muslims instructed to destroy churches so what is your point exactly?

What is the point of my post?

If the prophet said it and he did not instruct his followers to do anything (there is nothing in the statement that instructs them to do anything), how pray tell is this supposed to happen for 2 deens not to coexist in the Arabian Peninsula?

You need to ask yourself the questions, did the grand mufti make the statement or not? Is the grand mufti a respected islamic scholar/an authority on Islam or not? Will there be people who stand by the words of the grand mufti or not.

If your answers to these questions are yes, yes and yes then you begin to see why some people are concerned he made such a statement. You don't have to agree with what he says but there are people who agree with him. He's the Grand Mufti!

The people who have killed in recent days in Egypt, ask yourself the question again, were the muslims who attacked the coptic church shouting Allahu Akbar specifically instructed to kill those people? I guess your answer to this question will be no, (Idon't know myself) but people have lost their lives regardless. Again, I say CNN and BBC will never carry such stories.

Both Christianity and Islam are fake and malicious ideologies that were responsible for the transatlantic slavetrade.