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reporter: a message to the faithful ahead of his historic trip to the arabian peninsula, the birth place of islam and home of some of its holiest sites, attracting millions of pilgrims each year. but the gulf also has a christian past. we have evidence of christianity in eastern arabia, including the uae and oman well into the 8th and 9th centuries ad. reporter: abu dhabi is home to the ruins of an ancient monastery built around 600 ad. fragments of which can be found at the louvre abu dhabi. it was founded by a denomination called the church of the east, one of the eastern churches. still survives. so the visit by the pope actually has a local resonance in that there is a tradition here of christianity that is still related today to the catholic church.