Traffic In Bibles
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, April 30.
Bibles are realising big prices on Moscow’s black market, according to the Swedishbased director of an international religious organisation, Underground Evangelism.
A Bulgarian pastor, the Rev. Haralan Popov, who arrived in Sydney today for a lecture and fund-raising tour, told reporters: “I heard of one Russian who" paid 600 roubles, a month’s pay, for a Bible.”
Mr Popov said his organisation, which has branches in Europe and the United States, has smuggled a quarter of a million Bibles into Communist bloc countries in
the last year by hiding them in such things as jam jars and even artificial limbs.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31976, 1 May 1969, Page 15
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