NANJING, China — On its official Web site, the Beijing Olympics organizing committee advises that each visitor to the Games "take no more than one Bible into China."
But in a country where the ruling Communist Party still forbids its members from joining religious groups, a factory in eastern China produced 6.7 million Bibles last year, more than 3 million for distribution in China.
The Nanjing Amity Printing Co. looks little different from the Ford, Motorola and Siemens factories nearby: A stone-and-glass office building stands in front of long, white warehouses with tall windows. Its presses can produce 42 Bibles a minute.
Workers at the plant recently packaged some 50,000 copies of the New Testament that will be distributed free during the Olympics....