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First church inaugurated in Qatar
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7297808.stm"><IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="St Mary's Catholic church in Qatar, March 2008" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44494000/jpg/_44494011_church_afp203b.jpg" /> <DIV class="cap">Thousands of expatriate workers will be worshipping at the new church</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7297808.stm"><TR><TD colspan="3"><DIV class="mxb"><DIV class="sh"> First church inaugurated in Qatar </DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="416" valign="top"><DIV class="storybody"> <TABLE width="203" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV> <IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="St Mary's Catholic church in Qatar, March 2008" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44494000/jpg/_44494011_church_afp203b.jpg" /> <DIV class="cap">Thousands of expatriate workers will be worshipping at the new church </DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>The Christian community in Qatar has opened the first official church in the Gulf state.</B></DIV></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7297808.stm"> St Mary's Roman Catholic church was inaugurated in the capital, Doha</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7297808.stm"> Tens of thousands of Christians, most of them Catholic, live in the emirate, which has a mainly Sunni Muslim population</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; 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