06 April 2009
Mecca mosques 'wrongly aligned'
Some 200 mosques in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers, reports from Saudi Arabia say.
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17 February 2009
The Untold Ordeal of a Christian Convert in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (ANS) -- Christian converts in Saudi Arabia go through many untold ordeals at the hands of government officials and other Muslim fundamentalists because of their faith in Jesus Christ.
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03 February 2009
Saudi Arabian Airlines passenger sentenced to 30 lashes
A PASSENGER has been sentenced to 30 lashes for smoking on a domestic Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAA) flight.
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SAUDI ARABIA: PASTOR FLEES DEATH THREATS
Religious police, others warn key figure in expatriate church to leave.
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13 August 2008
SAUDI ARABIA: FATHER KILLS CHRISTIAN CONVERT DAUGHTER
A Saudi man, member of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, has killed his daughter for converting to Christianity, the Gulf News daily
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20 February 2008
Saudi Arabia Stands By Its Arrest of An American Woman in Starbucks
Saudi Arabia's religious police have issued a rare public statement defending their arrest of an American woman living in Riyadh, jailed for sitting with a male colleague at Starbucks.
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29 January 2008
Saudi beheads Nigerian woman
RIYADH - A Nigerian woman and a Pakistani man were executed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca today for drug trafficking, the Saudi interior ministry said
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16 January 2008
Bush to Saudis: Can you help us out on these oil prices? Saudis: Nope
(startribune.com) Saudi Arabia will raise oil production only when the market justifies it...08:47 Posted in Saudi Arabia | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this
26 November 2007
To make room for more rape victims in prison, Saudis release 1,500 Jihadists after they promise not to attack Saudi Arabia
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03 August 2007
Saudi Arabia Traps Christian Surgeon for Faith in Jesus
An Egyptian Christian surgeon is reportedly being detained by the Saudi Arabia government because of his faith, alerted a Washington-based Christian human rights group Wednesday
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