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Article: Up from the underground: the church in Qatar.(Qatar)(Brief Article)
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Doha, Qatar -- Catholics in this Muslim state no longer have to practise their religion clandestinely but actually are being provided with the land to build a church on. For seven centuries Catholics in Qatar, a tiny Emirate (population 800,000) on the Persian Gulf, were officially prohibited from holding religious services, as they still are in Saudi Arabia.
A new constitution was approved by the government in April 2003, promising freedom of expression and of religion. Since then, the government has donated ...