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Inside the evangelical mission to build the first church in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam where preaching the Bible can land you in jail
Bill Bostock
Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam, has outlawed churches and punished Christian worship for decades.
The kingdom s 1.4 million Christians meet in secret, but authorities are signalling more openness.
This is the inside story of the American mission to woo MBS to build the kingdom s first church.
On a sunny, cloudless October morning in 2019, twenty-five American Christians gathered at the base of Jabal al-Lawz, an umber-coloured mountain in northwest Saudi Arabia.
Their leader, the evangelical author and preacher Joel Richardson, took out a Bible he d brought from back home in Kansas, and started to read out loud. ....

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