How one million Bibles were smuggled into China in just two hours
By 
Ben Cohen2021-06-17T10:55:00
It was the D-Day of Bible smuggling: a million Bibles secretly unloaded onto Chinese shores in one night. Forty years on, some of the key players recount the remarkable and often miraculous operation
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