Talks on Christian Issue

Pope Benedict is expected to raise the issue of the Christian worship in Muslim kingdom during King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah is at the Vatican where they are supposed to talk on the Middle East conflict and inter-faith dialogue.
The two sides have no diplomatic ties, though Abdullah met the late Pope John Paul II when he was crown prince.
Vatican source says the visit comes as relations between the Vatican and the Muslim world are improving, more than a year after the crisis caused by a papal speech appearing to associate Islam with violence.
The 84-year-old king is on the third leg of a European tour after London and Geneva. He will travel next to Germany and Turkey.
About a million Catholics, many of them migrant workers from the Philippines, live in the conservative desert kingdom, which is the home of Islam's holiest shrines.