Worldwide efforts to ban, slander or rewrite the Bible
In 2025, a university in England placed a deceitful warning label on the Bible for English Literature students who would be reading it as part of their coursework.
In the United States, the Canyon Independent School District in Texas, containing elementary through high school institutions, removed the Bible from its libraries in 2024.
In Africa, authorities in Mauritania and Somalia make Bible ownership nearly impossible.
In the Middle East, nations like Afghanistan and Yemen so severely restrict the Bible that simply owning one can result in the death penalty or imprisonment.
In Iran, the Bible can’t be translated into Farsi, Iran’s native language. Individuals caught with Farsi-language Bibles are subjected to harassment, imprisonment, and death penalties.
Read more: https://persecution.org/2026/02/05/age-of-concealment-how-the-bible-is-banned-and-slandered/