Religion Roundup
Christian Ministry to Distribute Bibles with Newspaper
The Associated Press
May 12, 2008
PITTSBURGH - A religious group is planning to distribute 250,000 Pittsburgh-themed Bibles in advertising pouches to be delivered with editions of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
CityReachers Pittsburgh, an outreach of the International Bible Society, hopes to send New Testaments to the newspaper's subscribers in Allegheny County and some border communities on September 7th.
The front cover will show the city's Golden Triangle. The back cover will show Pittsburgh Steelers football players kneeling in prayer.
So far, CityReachers has raised just $350,000 of the $625,000 needed to distribute the New Testaments to 250,000 households. It has until May 31 to raise the remaining money to meet a printing deadline.
Last month, the Bible society distributed 140,000 New Testaments in Philadelphia and Chester counties.
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