Saudi Arabia: 'Saudi Arabia’s religious police arrested 40 Pakistani Christians while the group met privately for worship last Friday morning in Riyadh. The gathering was a joint Catholic-Protestant prayer service held weekly. Several carloads of muttawa (Islamic religious police) reportedly surrounded the house, halted the sermon and proceeded to beat some of the worshippers, upsetting the furniture and breaking Christian symbols as they searched the house. All the men, women and children present were detained at the Dera police station and later released. “We are very upset over this news,” a Pakistan church leader said. “Why do Saudi Muslims have the right all over the world to build mosques and worship in them, when they refuse to designate places of worship for Christians who are guest workers in Saudi Arabia?”' (Compass Direct)