Stumbled across this story via the Christian Persecution Blog about how the Chinese government is going to allow Luis Palau to distribute his book, A Friendly Dialogue Between an Atheist and a Christian, for free to athletes and coaches at the Olympics.

From the Christianpost.com article:

The Chinese government has granted an American evangelist permission to distribute a Christian-Atheist book to athletes and coaches during the Beijing Summer Olympics, the ministry announced Wednesday.

Evangelist Luis Palau will be giving a copy of his book, A Friendly Dialogue Between an Atheist and a Christian, to athletes attending the Games.

The book records a conversation between atheist Chinese diplomat Zhao Qizheng – a high-ranking Chinese government official – and the Christian evangelist. It offers both the basic beliefs of Christianity and a unique perspective on Christianity and philosophy of religion as seen from Chinese culture and beliefs.

Palau’s distribution approval comes just one month after China announced that it will print and distribute 50,000 Gospel booklets in Chinese and English for the Olympics. China said it will also print 30,000 Chinese-English New Testaments and 10,000 Chinese-English complete Bibles especially for the Games.

News of China’s seeming respect for Christianity follows contrasting reports of increase persecution of house church leaders. A report last week informed that the chairman of the Federation House Church and his wife were forced this month to live on the streets after Chinese authorities repeatedly forced them out of shelters.

Luis Palau has written close to 50 books and has shared his message about Christ to over 1 billion people. Check out his website for more on his ministry.

By: Chris. This entry was posted on Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 12:29 pm and is filed under Books, Evangelism, Ministry. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.