The land was donated for the church and complex by King Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa who also gave land for the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Qatar, the first Catholic church built in the Arab Emirates.
National Catholic Register: Over the last six years, religious tolerance has increased in the cradle of Islam, the Persian Gulf, according to clerics who live there as well as academic observers.
On May 31, a brick from St. Peter’s Basilica, which is being used as the foundation stone for the Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia in Awali, Bahrain, was blessed by Bishop Camillo Ballin, apostolic vicar of northern Arabia. Read more here.
