Constitutional Law

Christian Missionaries Won't Leave Chinese Airport Without Bibles

A group of American Christians devoted to serving a “worldwide church by providing necessary tools and training for the local people to fulfill Christ’s ‘Great Commission,’ is refusing to budge from a Chinese airport until its 300 Bibles are returned. The group and its leader, Patrick Klein and their Bibles arrived at an airport in Kunming where they said airport officials confiscated the Bibles. A Kunming airport customs officer told The Associated Press that the Bibles were found in the passengers’ baggage but that airport authorities were only “taking care” of the books. Klein and members of his group were asked to leave the airport, but they’ve remained holed up there, saying they won’t leave without the Bibles. “We don’t want to go without taking those books,” Klein said. “It cost us a lot of money to bring them here.” Although Bibles are permitted in China, the government does bar proselytizing.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on August 18, 2008 (boomark / email).