The Apostolic Vicariate of North Arabia, formerly known as the Apostolic Vicariate of Kuwait, was established on May 31, 2011, following a decree of the then Congregation – today the Dicastery – for the Evangelization of Peoples in the Vatican.
The vicariate, according to its websiteincludes the northern territories of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, all majority Muslim countries.
The Order of the Capuchin Friars Minor is the one that has the mission of administering the territory, so the majority of the priests are Capuchin friars, although there are also diocesan, Carmelite, Salesian and other Eastern rites priests in communion with Rome.
Walter Sánchez Silva I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.
