China s Threat to the Bible | Nina Shea | First Things
More than 20 million Protestant and Catholic Bibles are printed annually by America s largest Bible publishing companies. But few are aware that most of these Bibles are printed in China, by Amity Printing Company. (Bible publishers that don t print in China include InterVarsity Press [IVP], St. Ignatius Press, St. Benedict Press, Cambridge University Press, R. L. Allan & Son, and Schuyler Bibles.) Thanks to American publishing decisions, American Christians rely on a state that represses Christianity for their Bibles. While China intensifies religious persecution at home and is considered by U.S. Intelligence to be the greatest threat to America today, this Bible supply chain is increasingly precarious. Yet the Bible publishers have no plans to use alternative printing presses.