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In the hotels of Beijing they will offer Bible during the Olympiads of 2008

Many athletes and foreign tourists will come to Beijing during the event

and most of them have religious beliefs, for what the Bible will be necessary, indicated Liu Bainian, vice-president of the Catholic Patriotic Association of China, in the frame of the present annual meeting of the National Committee of the Political Advisory Conference of the Chinese People (CCPPCh), maximum body adviser of the country.

The suggestion also will help to clarify the misunderstandings of the foreigners on the Chinese religious politics, pointed out Liu, also member of the National Committee of the CCPPCh, adding that the Bible is essential in the rooms of hotels of foreign countries, especially the Europeans.

Beijing will receive between 500.000 and 550.000 foreign visitors during 29th OOJJ, for which it reckons to be celebrated between 8 and on August 24, 2008, according to an estimation of the municipal bureau of the tourism.

In accordance with the ideas of Liu, the authorities can encourage the local believers so that they give his Bible temporarily.

Beijing is provided at present with more than 700 hotels of diverse stars, number that will reach the 800 with 130.000 rooms before the opening of the games, as affirmed the local tourist authorities.

The request was not late in being gathered by the only publishing house of the country authorized to print the Biblical text, which undersecretary, Zhang Liwei, showed his disposition “to answer the possible best thing to the demand”.

Inside his face wash before the JJOO, Peking wants to finish with the criticism generalized on the absence of freedom of religion in the country and has not got tired of repeating that this right is gathered in the Constitution sow that the laws are not violated and that I treated about beliefs approved by the Government.

The communist Government of China is known by his strict control of the religious practices and by allowing the prayer and the cult only in the Churches, mosques and temples ruled by groups controlled by the Authorities.

In his visit to China last year, the teller of the UNO on the Torture, Manfred Nowak, made sure that the faithful of religious minorities like Christian and Moslem, as well as practicing of the movement Falung Gong (considered a sect for Peking) keep on being victims of severe sanctions.

According to official information, in China there are 100 million faithful of diverse beliefs, more than 100.000 religious centers of meeting and approximately 300.000 clergymen or monks of different creeds.

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