WASHINGTON (AFP) - Chinese Christians said on Wednesday they presented former United States president George W. Bush with a Bible handwritten at a labour camp in a bid to highlight concerns about a lack of religious freedom.
The George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas, said that Bush on Tuesday received one of a number of Bibles which Chinese Christians had copied by hand at a labour camp where they were detained over an illegal religious gathering.
More than two dozen Christians had read the set of homemade Bibles for more than a year, 'sustaining the faith of the prisoners who read them, in secret, in the dark of night,' the former president's institute said in a statement.
It said that the Bush Institute planned to preserve the Bible 'along with other significant materials from freedom and democracy movements around the world' as part of a collection that will go online in early 2012.
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Chinese Christians, who presented former U.S. president George W. Bush with a Bible handwritten at a labor camp, certainly had to have much perseverance and spirituality to achieve such a task.
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