Bishop Camillo Ballin, apostolic vicar of Northern Arabia, answers questions during a March 13 interview with the Catholic News Service in Washington. He was visiting several U.S. cities to announce a new cathedral will be built in Bharain on two acres of land donated by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain. Besides a new cathedral, the planned church complex will include a bishop’s residence, 16 multipurpose areas, accommodations for visiting clergy and a training center for catechists. Construction is set to begin this October and the new cathedral should open in 2016. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) (March 19, 2014) See CATHEDRAL-BAHRAIN March 19, 2014.
Bahrain cathedral will be ‘symbol of Christianity’ in ‘heart of Islam’



