My Way News - Digging up the Saudi past: some would rather not
My Way News reports: "In the eyes of conservatives, the land where Islam was founded and the Prophet Muhammad was born must remain purely Muslim. Saudi Arabia bans public displays of crosses and churches, and whenever non-Islamic artifacts are excavated, the news must be kept low-key lest hard-liners destroy the finds."

Comment: Their hostility to Christianity is even expressed in the sciences. This report notes that pre-Islamic churches have been discovered, but this is kept quite and archeologists are warned not to publicize their findings.