Catholics in Saudi Arabia.The Catholic Church and human rights groups in Pakistan are asking the government to intervene on behalf of 40 Pakistani Catholics arrested by Saudi Arabia's religious police. The 40 were arrested April 23, 2005 as they celebrated Mass in a private residence in Riyadh. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Voice of the Martyrs' spokesman, Todd Nettleton, Christians from less powerful countries face greater persecution Persecution Albigenses medieval sect suppressed by a crusade, wars, and the Inquisition. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 53] Camisards uprising of Protestant peasantry after the revocation of Edict of Nantes in 1685 was brutally suppressed by the in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. (Zenit. May 18, 2005).
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