A man works on the Sacred Heart Church in Manama, Bahrain. Work is under way to build a new Roman Catholic church in the country, and plans are for it to be the largest church in the Persian Gulf region.

AP photo / Hasan Jamali

A man works on the Sacred Heart Church in Manama, Bahrain. Work is under way to build a new Roman Catholic church in the country, and plans are for it to be the largest church in the Persian Gulf region.

Church proposal roils Gulf

By Reem Khalifa
The Associated Press

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MANAMA, Bahrain Љ۬The building of the largest Roman Catholic church in the Persian Gulf was supposed to be a chance for the tiny island kingdom of Bahrain to showcase its traditions of religious tolerance in a conservative Muslim region where churches largely operate under heavy limitations.

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