Bible Storage Facility Burned In Turkey

Mark 13:13 “You will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.”

Turkish officials are seeking an arsonist who attached a building that contained thousands of New Testaments and other Christian documents.

The fire was noticed at 7 p.m. on December 7th at the offices of Bible Correspondence Course in Istanbul, Turkey.  The BCC was located in a multistory building that also housed the Kadikoy church.

BCC Turkey says that no one was injured in the blaze and because of the concrete construction of the building there was no structural damage.  However, everything inside the building was burned to ash.

“I think whoever did it knew something about what happens up here, because they kind of knew to come on a Sunday afternoon, and that if they were going to have an opportunity where there weren’t going to be a lot of people around, that’s probably the one that was most likely,” Paul Weaver of BCC-Turkey said.

“I think the firemen were genuinely surprised that when they got there they didn’t find a bigger fire, and I call that providence,” he said. “I don’t know what else to call it because I would agree, I think it should have been a bigger fire than what they actually found.”

BCC Turkey officials say that multiple groups within the city have wanted to stop the group from distributing the Bibles.

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