LOS ANGELES, March 28 (CDN) — Friends and family of two Indian Christians arrested after a prayer meeting in Saudi Arabia in January have tried in vain to secure their release. The two Christians were incarcerated for attending the prayer meeting with other Indian nationals ....
April 16 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, April 16 (Compass Direct News) – In a surprise move, a Saudi Christian arrested in January for describing his conversion from Islam and criticizing the kingdom’s judiciary on his blog site was released on March 28 with the stipulation ....
LOS ANGELES, April 15 (CDN) — In a surprise move, a Saudi Christian arrested in January for describing his conversion from Islam and criticizing the kingdom’s judiciary on his blog site was released on March 28 with the stipulation that he not travel outside of Saudi Arabia or ....
January 30 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, January 30 (Compass Direct News) – A prominent foreign pastor in Saudi Arabia has fled Riyadh after a member of the mutawwa’in, or religious police, and others threatened him three times in one week. Two of the incidents included ....
LOS ANGELES, January 30 (CDN) — A prominent foreign pastor in Saudi Arabia has fled Riyadh after a member of the mutawwa’in, or religious police, and others threatened him three times in one week. Two of the incidents included threats to kill house church pastor Yemane Gebriel of ....
January 28 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, January 28 (Compass Direct News) – Five months after the daughter of a member of Saudi Arabia’s religious police was killed for writing online about her faith in Christ, Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested a 28-year-old Christian ....
LOS ANGELES, January 28 (CDN) — Five months after the daughter of a member of Saudi Arabia’s religious police was killed for writing online about her faith in Christ, Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested a 28-year-old Christian man for describing his conversion and ....
August 25 (CDN) — August 25 (Compass Direct News) – Saudi Arabia deported four East African Christians last month after they were detained while leading a prayer service in Jeddah. Arrested on June 9, the church leaders were beaten and imprisoned for more than a ....
June 15 (CDN) — June 15 (Compass Direct) – Ten Saudi Arabian police armed with wooden clubs raided a private Christian worship meeting in the coastal city of Jeddah on June 9, arresting four East African citizens leading the service. At press time the two Ethiopian ....
June 20 (CDN) — June 20 (Compass) -- Five East Africans arrested and detained for a month for leading a private Christian worship service in Riyadh have been released and allowed to return to their jobs in the Saudi Arabian capital. Three weeks after their May 30 ....
May 16 (CDN) — Yemane Gebre Loul,May 16 (Compass) -- Five East African Christians arrested at a private Christian worship service three weeks ago are being refused any access to visitors at the interrogation center where they are jailed in the Saudi Arabian ....
May 4 (CDN) — May 4 (Compass) -- One week after arresting 40 Pakistani Christians, Saudi Arabia’s vigilante religious police broke up another private worship service of expatriate Christians in the capital last Friday. Five elders of an East African house church ....
April 25 (CDN) — April 25 (Compass) — Saudi Arabia’s religious police arrested 40 Pakistani Christians while the group met privately for worship last Friday morning in Riyadh. The house church gathering was a joint Catholic-Protestant prayer service held weekly in ....
November 2 (CDN) — November 2 (Compass) -- Seven months and seven days after he was arrested, tortured and jailed on charges of “spreading Christianity” in Saudi Arabia, Indian national Brian O’Connor was deported back to his homeland today. “It’s a miracle,” O’Connor ....
November 2 (CDN) — O'Connor (with beard) at the Riyadh airportNovember 2 (Compass) — Seven months and seven days after he was arrested, tortured and jailed on charges of “spreading Christianity” in Saudi Arabia, Indian national Brian O’Connor was deported back to his ....
October 27 (CDN) — October 27 (Compass) -- Without explanation, an Islamic court in Saudi Arabia ignored Christian prisoner Brian O’Connor’s previous charge of “spreading Christianity,” under which he has already been jailed for seven months. Instead, the Indian ....
October 27 (CDN) — Brian O'ConnorOctober 27 (Compass) — In an arbitrary verdict handed down last week by a Saudi Arabian court, Christian prisoner Brian O’Connor was convicted of the alleged possession and sale of alcohol in the strictly Muslim kingdom.Without ....
September 17 (CDN) — September 17 (Compass) — Brian O’Connor, a Christian guest worker from India, was produced before an Islamic court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on September 15, nearly six months after he was arrested, tortured and jailed for allegedly “spreading ....
September 17 (CDN) — September 17 (Compass) — Brian O’Connor, a Christian guest worker, from India, was produced before an Islamic court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on September 15, nearly six months after he was arrested, tortured and jailed for allegedly “spreading ....
July 30 (CDN) — July 30 (Compass) — Four months after he was tortured and jailed for “spreading Christianity” in Saudi Arabia, Indian Christian Brian O’Connor received his first official prison visits this week. O’Connor, 36, was lured out of his home in Riyadh on ....
June 9 (CDN) — June 9 (Compass) -- An Indian national abducted and tortured by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for “spreading Christianity” remains jailed without trial 10 weeks after his detention. Brian Savio O’Connor, 36, was accosted in the Mursalat district ....
June 9 (CDN) — Brian O'ConnorJune 9 (Compass) — An Indian national abducted and tortured 10 weeks ago by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for “spreading Christianity” remains jailed in Riyadh’s Al-Hair Prison without trial or even formal charges against him. Brian ....
December 15 (CDN) — (Compass) — Two Egyptian Coptic Christians jailed by Saudi authorities were released 17 days after their arrest for establishing an expatriate house church in the capital of Riyadh. Dr. Sabry Awad Gayed and Eskander Guirguis Eskander, both 38, were ....
December 2 (CDN) — Two Egyptian Coptic Christians jailed by Saudi authorities have been released 17 days after their arrest for establishing an expatriate house church in the capital of Riyadh. Dr. Sabry Awad Gayed and Eskander Guirguis Eskander, both 38, were ....
November 14 (CDN) — (Compass) — Six days after the third-ranking official in the Saudi government ordered their release, two Egyptian Christians remained in police custody in Riyadh. Arrested on October 25, Dr. Sabry Awad Gayed and Eskander Guirguis Eskander were ....
August 15 (CDN) — (Compass) — After 20 weeks in a Saudi jail for participating in prohibited Christian activities, Eritrean Christian Girmaye Ambaye was deported from Jeddah by plane back to his home country on August 9. Ambaye had been jailed at the Bremen ....
July 14 (CDN) — (Compass) — After nearly three months in a Saudi Arabian jail, Eritrean Christian Girmaye Ambaye is still awaiting deportation for alleged participation in “Christian activities” prohibited under the country’s strict interpretation of Islamic law. ....
June 16 (CDN) — (Compass) — On May 16, an Ethiopian Christian was deported from Saudi Arabia for alleged “Christian activities,” but a fellow Christian prisoner of Eritrean citizenship remained jailed in Jeddah. Girmaye Ambaye, who was arrested on March 25 in the ....
May 19 (CDN) — (Compass) — Two African men jailed in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah for “Christian activities” are slated for deportation back to their homelands. Girmaye Ambaye, 44, of Eritrea, was arrested at his sponsor’s office on March 25. Ethiopian ....
April 19 (CDN) — (Compass) - An Ethiopian and Filipino Christian jailed since last summer in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah were released and deported to their home countries over Easter weekend. Filipino Dennis Moreno flew home to Manila on Emirates airlines ....
January 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - Six of 14 foreign Christians slated fordeportation from Saudi Arabia have been released for return to their home countries during the past 10 days. But another eight prisoners and their families remain entangled in a process that could ....
December 14 (CDN) — (Compass) - More than a dozen foreign Christians remain jailed in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, where local authorities have for months ignored inquiries and notes of protest from consulates requesting diplomatic access to their imprisoned ....
November 16 (CDN) — (Compass) - At least 12 foreign Christians jailed months ago in the port city of Jeddah remain under arrest in the Sharafia detention facility. Verbal reports indicate that investigations of their case were completed weeks ago. Diplomatic officials ....
October 19 (CDN) — (Compass) - Nigerian Christian Afobunor Okey Buliamin, 40, was arrested without explanation on August 19. Buliamin is the only Nigerian among 13 foreign nationals known to be detained since mid July in a series of religious police raids in Jeddah. ....
September 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - At least 13 foreign Christians have been arrested since mid July in Jeddah, where Saudi Arabia’s religious police are apparently trying to track down Saudi nationals thought to have contact with expatriate house churches in the city. The ....
February 18 (CDN) — (Compass) - Four Filipino Christians arrested on January 7 remained jailed a month later in the capital of Riyadh. The four men were identified as Vic Mira Velez, Rupino Sulit, Art Abreu and Eminesio Rabea. A total of 15 Christians were arrested ....
January 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - Filipino Christian Edmar Romero is still awaiting release six weeks after Saudi’s religious police arrested him December 1 in his own home. Romero’s personal Bible and other Christian literature he was studying were confiscated from his ....
January 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - Saudi Arabia’s vigilante religious police raided a private Christian worship service in Riyadh on January 7 on a tip from a Filipino Muslim who infiltrated the group. Police arrested 15 of the estimated 100 persons gathered in a private ....
