(Compass) – Five East Africans arrested for leading a private Christian worship service in Riyadh were released after a month in jail. Three weeks after their May 30 release, the three Ethiopians and two Eritreans had received no indication that they will lose their jobs or be subject to deportation. The men were interrogated extensively while blindfolded the first seven days. Within the past two months, at least three meetings of expatriate Christians gathering privately for worship in Riyadh have been broken up and their leaders arrested for several days or weeks. Saudi Arabia prohibits the public practice of any religion other than Islam.
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Khan is a courageous Christian convert who was forced to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover that practically sentenced all Christians to death.
Despite this abrupt action, Khan hid his faith from his family in this extremely dangerous situation. Refugees in Iraq often do not have enough to live on, so ICC provided Khan and his family with necessities in this time. This is just one of many ways that our Afghanistan Crisis Emergency Fund is used to combat the Taliban persecution.
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