Reports: Iran Seizes Thousands of Bibles; Destroys Church

TEHRAN, IRAN (Worthy News)– Iranian authorities seized thousands of Bibles in north-west Iran and destroyed a church in the Islamic country’s south-east as part of a wider crackdown on Christianity, Iranian Christians said in messages monitored by Worthy News.

Iranian Christian news agency Mohabat News quoted Majid Abhari, an advisor to the social issues committee of Iran’s parliament, as saying 6,500 Bibles were seized in recent days between the cities of Zanjan and Abhar in Zanjan Province.

He reportedly told government news agency Mehr that the action was necessary as “missionaries with reliance on huge money and propaganda are trying to deviate [Iran's] youth.”

Abhari added that the Bibles “were made with the best paper in the world in pocket size.” He said, “The important point in this issue that should be considered by intelligence, judicial and religious agencies is that all religions are strengthening their power to confront Islam, otherwise what does this huge number of bibles mean?”