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Are hotels checking out of
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••••In
1991, Troy Cory helped bring the Gideon Bibles to
China.
He travelled with two
executives of the Gideons to Beijing who supplied a
local printshop with the plates to have the bibles
printed in
China.
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Sometime in the future
you might not find a Bible in the bedside
nightstand. A recent survey by STR, a hospitality
analytics company, found that the percentage of
hotels that offer religious materials in rooms has
dropped significantly over the last decade.
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Hotels also have been under
pressure lately from atheist groups.
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The nonprofit group Freedom
From Religion Foundation that promotes separation
of church and state, wrote to major hotel companies
last year, asking them to keep Bibles out of hotel
rooms.
••••
Bibles started to become a
hotel standard in the late 1800s when three
traveling businessmen founded Gideons International
with a plan to spread the Gospels by placing the
Bible in hotel rooms across the country.
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The nonprofit group now has
about 270,000 members in 200 countries. In its
latest fiscal year, Gideon International
spent about $100 million to distribute Bibles
to hotels, prisons, hospitals and other
locations, about the same amount as in 2015,
according to the group's financial statements.
••••
"The decline of religious
materials in hotels, as cited in the survey, is
reflective of increasing secularism and
independence in the world," he said. "This has
resulted in an erosion of spiritual awareness."
••••
Marriott International, the
world's largest hotel company, supplies a Bible and
the Book of Mormon in the rooms of every other
hotel in the franchise. But the company has
recently decided that no religious materials should
be offered at two of its newest millennial-oriented
hotel brands, Moxy and Edition hotels.
••••
Among the reasons for
the change, according to industry experts, is a
need to appeal to younger American travelers who
are less devout than their parents or grandparents
and to avoid offending international travelers
such as Muslims or Buddhists.
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However, travelers who
regularly read the Bible probably already have one
with them, either in book or digital form.
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Print the first Christian Bibles for the Gideons in
1991, -- About 14 million Christian Bibles have
been printed in China. Gideon Officials: Wendell
McClinton, Don Johnson China Delagation:
Chen
Suyu, Wang Xiang, China Ambassador, Dr. Robert
Schuller, Wayne Gan, Troy Cory of China
Expo.
May - 2006 / Since 1991, about 14
million Christian Bibles have been printed in
China. In the photo above Dr. Robert Schuller is
surrounded by officials from China Expo. Photo
left, Troy is seen with Gideon executives, Wendell
McClinton, and Don Johnson overlooking Tiananmen
Square, celebrating the approval of the printing of
over 1-million Christian Bibles with the Gideon
logo.
•"Since
1992," said Troy Cory of China Expo, "the Chinese
government has eased its restrictions on religious
practices in most areas of the country. Beijing has
allowed
an estimated 14 million new Bibles to be printed in
China, like the one shown in Troy's hand in photo
above.
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Last
week at Garden Grove's Crystal Cathedral, much of
the story leading up to the Troy Cory - Gideon
accomplishment, was
told.
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/ "After the
China delegation left Schuller's cathedral offices
in 1991," said Troy Cory, "the door was wide open
to China for Dr. Robert Schuller." Schuller, the
founder of the Crystal Cathedral located in Garden
Grove California, "was given the opportunity to
have as many Gideon Bibles printed in China, as he
wished to distribute."
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It wasn't until 15 years later, that
Schuller's first meeting with the China ambassador
to the U.S., Wang Xiang, and Troy Cory, pictured
above, was mentioned. "Only a few guests at this
month's special May Day, cathedral Bible
exhibition, had knowledge of the historical meeting
that took place at the cathedral, brought together
by Troy," said a China Expo official.
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Some told much of the story leading up to
the accomplishment, that Troy and the Chinese
delegation brought to the cathedral and Dr.
Schuller over 15 years
ago.
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"We want to let the people of the U.S. know
that there are real Christians in China," said the
Rev. Cao Shengje, president of the Shanghai-based
China Christian Council, which sponsored the
exhibition.
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The first exhibition of its kind outside
China, the show covered six galleries in the
cathedral's arboretum with more than 50 items
related to the history of Christianity in China,
including an "imperial edition" of the Bible
published in 1894 and presented by a group of
Christian women to the Empress Dowager Cixi of the
Qing Dynasty. Among other notable objects: a
65-foot calligraphy scroll called the "Song of
Songs."
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"I love you very, very deeply," the Rev.
Robert H. Schuller, the cathedral's founder, told
the gathering of Chinese dignitaries and visitors
at the show's opening April
21.
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"I think that China is going to change the
world because Christ is going to be known and
spread through you," he
said.
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The Garden Grove exhibition closed April 28
and is scheduled to move to Atlanta for an
engagement this month and to New York City in
June.
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Although the first Christian Bible entered
China about the year 635, experts said, it took
centuries for its ideas to spread. During the
Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, according to
Shengje, the Bible was banned and almost all copies
of it burned.
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It wasn't until I convinced
Beijing officials in 1991, that the best place to
print the Bibles, "would be in the military
printing facilities," Troy said. "The Gideon
officials from Nashville, Wendell McClinton, and
Don Johnson, left the plates with them, and within
four weeks, the Bibles were printed and ready for
distribution to a few selected hotels in Beijing
and Shanghai.
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Since that time, the Chinese government has
eased its restrictions on religious practices in
the country, allowing an unlimited supply of Bibles
to be printed, "as long as they had cash
customers," continued
Troy.
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Today, Shengje said, there are about 16
million practicing Christians in China -- a small
percentage of the population "but growing very
quickly."
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Chinese college students inevitably ask
where truth lies, question values they grew up with
and explore other faiths and nonfaiths, reported a
LATimes reporter.
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Years of sex abuse scandals in the Roman
Catholic Church didn't keep many parishioners from
going to church, but that didn't mean their wallets
followed, according to a study released this month,
(May, 2006), by the Center for Applied Research in
the Apostolate.
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Ten phone polls, seven of them partly funded
by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, show
little difference in church attendance from 2001 to
2005. Accusations of sex abuse within the church
began attracting national coverage in March 2002.
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But the percentage of participants who
regularly donated money to their local parish
gradually fell from 78% in January 2001 to 72% in
October 2004, though donations saw a slight rise in
October 2005 to 74%.
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A third of participants between 2001 and
2002 said the sexual abuse scandals were the reason
they donated less.
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The sample size of the polls varied.
Researchers contacted about 1,200 self-identified
Catholics nationwide in most of the
surveys.
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Low Opinion of Atheists
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U.S. parents would rather their child marry
a Muslim than settle down with an atheist,
according to a recent study by the University of
Minnesota.
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The survey of 2,081 people nationwide
revealed that atheists top a list of groups that
Americans find "problematic in both public and
private life."
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Researchers gave participants a list of
groups -- including conservative Christians, gays
and lesbians, and recent immigrants -- and asked
them which groups related to their "vision of
America."
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Atheists were chosen the least, with about
40% of participants responding that atheists "do
not at all agree with our vision of American
society."
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Respondents were also asked about potential
spouses for their children, and atheists brought up
the rear again. About 48% said they would
disapprove of their child marrying
one.
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Muslims were the second least-favorable
suitors, with about 34% of respondents saying
they'd disapprove.
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Atheists account for about 3% of the U.S.
population.
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