{"id":2301,"date":"2007-03-30T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T08:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/more-on-that-qatar-church.html"},"modified":"2007-03-30T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T08:59:39","slug":"more-on-that-qatar-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/more-on-that-qatar-church.html","title":{"rendered":"More on that Qatar Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Future Parish priest Fr. Tom Veneration, tells AsiaNews: \u201cAfter over 20 years of making formal requests to the authorities, the government has finally granted the Christian confessions land to build their own places of worship. The Catholic community were given the largest piece of land, because our presence here goes back down the centuries and also because our community is the largest, now numbering over 100 thousand faithful\u201d.<\/p>\n

He adds, the Church land \u201cwas given to us by Emir Amir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who in recent years has promoted a politics of inter religious dialogue while at the same time maintaining the laws which forbid any attempts to convert the local population, for the most part Muslim, to any other religion. This really is the only great limit to our pastoral work, but we must comply\u201d. The Church will be dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary.<\/p>\n

Roman Catholics from all over the Arabian Peninsula – many of them migrant workers – are helping to pay for the $15m building, which is scheduled to open at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

The priest who has been working in Doha for the past three years is originally from Manila: \u201cUp on till now we have been gathering to pray in our homes and in the small chapels inside the American and Philippine campus in Doha.   Together with all the Catholics who live here we are really delighted at the idea that soon we will be able to celebrate mass in a true Church, sign of our presence in this land.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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