Bibles in China

Earlier this summer Adam Minter blogged about the availability of Bibles in China. Adam's primary focus in that post was to clear up the myth that the Bible remains a banned book here in China, and rather it is a book printed by the millions every year here for the domestic market.

If you don't like what Adam says, you can just read about it on the notoriously pro-Beijing website, CBN news. With video.

BEIJING - Seven days a week, the machines at the Nanjing Amity Printing Company churn out copies of what some claim is one of China's best-selling books - the Bible.

Forty-three million Bibles have been printed legally in Communist China since 1987. Once a banned book, today some 3 million copies are printed and distributed each year across the country.

And this year, Chinese Christian leaders are hoping to print a special edition of the Bible to make available to the hundreds of thousands of athletes and visitors expected to attend next year's Olympic Games.

Dr. Cao Shengjie of China Christian council oversees the printing of Bibles in China. He said, "And so for this very important occasion, we hope we can print a special edition, maybe the four Gospels in English and Chinese, bilingual."