How One Man Is Smuggling Bibles into India (Amir)

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this episode, Amir talks about the intense persecution faced by Christians in India, the challenges of smuggling and distributing Bibles, and the various efforts to support and protect new converts and vulnerable children from exploitation. Amir works directly with Crossway as a part of our ongoing One Million Bibles Initiative. Over the last two years, more than 875,000 Bibles have been funded through our One Million Bibles Initiative. By God’s grace, 656,000 Bibles have been distributed to ministry partners in 27 countries throughout the Global South, with the remaining 219,000 copies in the process of being distributed. Would you prayerfully consider a gift to help distribute God’s Word to those with little or no access? Every $40 you give delivers 10 copies of the Bible to Christians in need. The overall goal of the One Million Bibles Initiative is to distribute one million Bibles in the Global South. Our objective is to finish the funding for this initiative by December 31, 2024, to support the printing and distribution of the final 125,000 Bibles. A generous donor has agreed to match gifts dollar for dollar, up to $250,000. In partnering with us, your gift will have double the impact and help us surpass our overall goal to distribute one million Bibles. Learn more or donate to the One Million Bibles Initiative. Read the full transcript of this episode. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show! Complete this survey for a free audiobook by Kevin DeYoung!

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0:00.0	When we think of persecution against Christians, it's easy to think that's something that's
0:07.8	relatively rare today, and only growing more so as the decades roll on. But sadly, that's not always the
0:14.7	case. In many places around the world, Christians still face social ostracism, harassment,
0:20.7	and even physical violence on account of their faith. Even for the world, Christians still face social ostracism, harassment, and even physical violence
0:22.6	on account of their faith, even for the simple offense of owning a Bible.
0:27.6	Well, today I'm speaking with Amir, although that's not his full name, which we can't share
0:32.6	due to security concerns. And Amir is from a country that might surprise you. India. India is the world's most populous
0:39.7	country and is technically a democracy. But that doesn't mean that Christians there don't face
0:45.0	real persecution. In our conversation today, Amir shares about the real challenges that Christians
0:50.6	in India face day in and day out, how he and other believers are seeking to share the gospel
0:56.2	and care for the oppressed around them,
0:58.7	and why getting Bibles into the hands of believers and unbelievers alike
1:02.3	is so hard and yet so crucial.
1:05.4	We're sharing this special interview in connection with Crossways'
1:08.5	One Million Bibles Initiative,
1:10.4	an ambitious project that we're
1:12.2	excited to share more about after today's episode.
1:15.2	Let's get started.
1:21.0	Thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.
1:24.7	Thanks for having me.
1:25.7	Thank you so much, yeah.
1:27.2	So you do a lot of really amazing work throughout the country of India, and I'm excited to
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