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March 10, 2011

AP: Christians issue rare rebuke against Malaysia's government for seizing Bibles

by Sean Yoong
The Associated Press

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia- The main Christian grouping in Muslim-majority Malaysia said Thursday it was "fed up" with the government's refusal to allow the distribution of tens of thousands of Bibles, saying this was an affront to religious freedoms.

The rare rebuke by the Christian Federation of Malaysia signals growing impatience among the religious minority in a years-old dispute over the government's ban on the use of the word "Allah" as a translation for God in Malay-language Bibles and religious texts.

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