Many countries are on record for banning The Bible; like: Afghanistan; Belarus; Bhutan; Brunei; Burma; China; Comoros Islands; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Ira; Kuwait; etc... and the list goes on and continues to grow as time passes.
That can't be true. Eritrea is 50% Christian. Ethiopia has a large and famous Christian community. Christians make up about 60% of the total population of Ethiopia. Ironically the Catholic Churched actually banned lay people from owning Bibles.
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Most countries that are Islamic, including Afghanistan, have banned the Bible. Other countries where the Bible is banned include North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, and Iraq.
Codex Sinaiticus In four countries..
It depends on where you are. The Torah is banned in some of the more stringent Islamic countries and banned for non-Jews in several others. It was also largely banned in the Soviet Union. (Also, in acts of anti-Semitism, Torah-scrolls and books have been burned many times throughout history.)
The bible hadn't yet been put together during Roman times-people like St Paul were still just writing their letters during that time!
The Bible has been translated into so many different languages that it is hard to think of a single country that does not have a Bible in at least its principal language.