CFM : Release of 15,000 Bibles in BM

Hey Youths, just wanna share something with you all. This is an article taken from The Star on the 5th of November 2009 (Thursday). Look at how strong the faith of the CFM and determination to publish Bibles in BM.

Here goes the article :-

CFM : Release of 15,000 Bibles in BM

"KUALA LUMPUR: The Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) has called for the immediate release of the 15,000 Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia being withheld by the authorities.

It said that such an action contravened Article 11 of the Federal Constitution, which gave all Malaysians the right to profess and practise their faith.

“This constitutional right is rendered illusory if Christians in Malaysia are denied access to Bibles in a language with which they are familiar,” said its chairman Bishop Ng Moon Hing in a statement yesterday.

He said the withholding of the Bibles deprived Christians in Sabah, Sarawak and in the peninsula, “the right to use the Holy Scriptures in Bahasa Malaysia, to practise and profess their faith and to nourish themselves spiritually.”

He said it was baseless to withhold the Bibles on the ground that they were prejudicial to public order since they had been in existence before independence.

“Since the 1970s and in consonance with the Government’s policies in education and the national language, Christians in Malaysia have received their education in Bahasa Malaysia.”

He said the Government had, in an agreement in 2005, stated that Bibles in Bahasa Malaysia could be distributed so long as the symbol of the cross and the words ‘A Christian publication’ were printed on the front page."