Source: World Watch Monitor, October 3, 2016<\/p>\n
The recent registration of a Bible Society in Azerbaijan, after a 20-year fight, has brought fresh optimism to the country\u2019s minority Christians, but there remains some confusion about the types of books it will be allowed to print, with even Bibles potentially falling foul of the country\u2019s strict regulations.<\/p>\n
Terje Hartberg from United Bible Societies called it \u201ca great development, which will start a new chapter in Bible ministry for all Christians in Azerbaijan.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, all literature either printed or imported by the Bible Society will remain subject to approval by the government\u2014with every publication labelled with an official sticker\u2014and its distribution permitted only at state-approved venues.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Also see a story about neighboring Iran<\/a> which describes that country\u2019s church growth spurt (Mission Network News).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: World Watch Monitor, October 3, 2016 The recent registration of a Bible Society in Azerbaijan, after a 20-year fight, has brought fresh optimism to the country\u2019s minority Christians, but there remains some confusion about the types of books it will be allowed to print, with even Bibles potentially falling foul of the country\u2019s strict … Continue reading AZERBAIJAN: Bible Society Registers after 20 Years, But Will It Be Able to Print Bibles?<\/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-6694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694","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=6694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6695,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}