The Christian Federation of Malaysia – which comprises the nation’s largest ecumenical, Evangelical, and Roman Catholic Christian bodies – announced Thursday that it is “greatly disillusioned, fed-up and angered by the repeated detention of Bibles written in our national language, Bahasa Malaysia”.
“Since March 2009, all attempts to import the Bible in Bahasa Malaysia ie the Alkitab, whether through Port Klang or the Port of Kuching, have been thwarted,” the umbrella organisation stated, suggesting that the detentions are linked to the widely-publicised 2009 row over the translation of “God” in Bibles and other Christian publications.
In Malaysia, Christian publications were not allowed to use the word “Allah” to refer to God. The government contends the word “Allah” is exclusively for Islam and that the use of “Allah” in Christian publications could confuse Muslims and make Christian ideas more ...
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