Church group to drop thousands of Bibles over Islamic State-held areas

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Church group to drop thousands of Bibles over Islamic State-held areas
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Livets Ord insists their bible drone drop does not represent an 'attack' on the Islamic State group

A Swedish Evangelical church group is planning to drop small, electronic bibles onto Islamic State group-held areas of Iraq, it has claimed.

“The Bibles are the size of pill boxes and have a display,” Christian Akerhielm from the Livets Ord (Word of Life) group told Sweden’s national broadcaster SVT.

“They require no electricity, but work on their own,” he said.

The church, founded in the 1980s, shares many similarities with the Pentecostal movement and focuses on establishing a direct, personal experience of god. It has commissioned a company to fly drones over Iraq to deliver the devices from high altitude.

"We start our project in a few weeks and hope to drop thousands of bibles," it said.

IS militants have been widely accused of persecuting Christians in areas they control. When they stormed Mosul, in June 2014, previously home to one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, thousands fled.

The few Christians who stayed behind said that IS destroyed local churches and religious statues and issued an ultimatum for them to convert to Islam, pay a religious tax, known as the jizya, or die.

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Electronic Bibles. Swedish Evangelicals.

I hope they can succeed.