
Father Wang showing one of the sun-dried Bibles. Photo:UBSCP/Chris Neo.
SHANDONG - I always felt that there were never enough Bibles in the churches in China. I grew up in a village church in Shandong province. More than 20 years ago, there were not more than 20 Catholic Bibles shared among the 500-600 parish members. In those days, church members would read the Bible aloud through the amplifiers for the rest of the congregation to listen to God’s Word.
A Bible, to me, was a rare and precious commodity. This leads me to share with you an incident in 2002…
Then I was still working at the Beijing Catholic Seminary.
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