Saudi Arabia has opened up tourism to non-Muslims, and American Evangelicals are early fans, despite the country's record of abuse.
El-Hage points to the 2022 U.S. Embassy Report on International Religious Freedom for Saudi Arabia and notes that the country raids"home churches," outlaws the display of non-Muslim religious symbols and persecutes anyone who attempts to organize religious activity in private spaces.
Laurion says her 12-year-old grandson discovered a cave with petroglyphs. On another trip, she said she found living quarters thousands of years old with Hebrew inscriptions that are now being deciphered by the Museum of the Bible in Washington and she found a gravestone with what appears to be a menorah carved into it.
Joel Richardson, the author, preacher and documentary filmmaker who led Living Passage's first tourist group in 2019 said:"They're sitting on arguably the most significant piece of biblical real estate in the world, outside of Israel." "While in the last year there were no reports of Christians being arrested or forced into marriage, or of Christian houses being attacked, physical violence against converts remains high, and several believers were forced to leave their homes," it said. It said that earlier improvements had included removing anti-Christian content from textbooks, as well as descriptions of Christians and Jews at"infidels" and"enemies of God.
Richardson said the first reports of Christian visitors had prompted some local criticism on social media of a"Zionist" invasion of the holy lands, but that other Saudis had told the complainers to shut up.
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