Newspaper Bible Outreach Draws Complaints from Christians

A Christian ministry’s plan to distribute copies of the New Testament alongside local weekend newspapers throughout the United States has faced opposition from an unlikely quarter – Christians themselves.

International Bible Society–Send the Light (IBS-STL) is planning to distribute Bibles with 11 newspapers in 2007 and 2008 – an outreach that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, reported The Associated Press this past week. However, a senior figure in one of the newspapers involved in the project told AP he had received complaints from Christians who said that the Bibles distributed could be thrown away.

"I expected that we'd get some criticism, but I thought it would be coming from people who were not Christian or not religious at all. Many of the complaints we got were from people who were Christian and didn't like the idea," said Bob Ray Sanders, the Star-Telegram's vice president and associate editor.

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