Source: Mission Network News, March 31, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kurt Rovenstine, of Bibles for China, disagrees with recent claims that China is one of the countries leading a trend of banning the Bible, as reported in a recent article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe way these articles are framed and the statements that they make, I think you have to be able to dig a little bit deeper to find out what is really the issue,\u201d says Rovenstine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So what is true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the article referenced, China is mentioned alongside Saudi Arabia and North Korea as some of the most dangerous countries to possess a Bible\u2014Rovenstine notes this misrepresents the reality. China is not in the top three for limited access, but it is on the list of countries where access to the Bible is most restricted<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The article also claims the Chinese government is \u201cremoving the Bible from online retailers and replacing it with a \u2018sanitized\u2019 version.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve not seen any of that,\u201d says Rovenstine. \u201cNobody who\u2019s claiming that has ever shown us that or actually produced one of these compromised Bibles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full article<\/a> for more perspective and some ways to pray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You might also be interested in a recent article about the unique challenges Chinese missionaries face<\/a> (China Source).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, March 31, 2026 Kurt Rovenstine, of Bibles for China, disagrees with recent claims that China is one of the countries leading a trend of banning the Bible, as reported in a recent article. \u201cThe way these articles are framed and the statements that they make, I think you have to be … Continue reading China: Are Bibles Banned in China? It\u2019s Complicated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14570,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14569\/revisions\/14570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}