i dont know where you get that assumption from.
Well, just the Gideons by themselves give away over 63,000,000 copies of scriptures (usually in the form of the complete NT plus Psalms and Proverbs) every single year. They are just a part of the Bible-believing Protestant global missionary effort. My own denomination, Southern Baptist, is very involved in distributing free Bibles, and especially translating them into languages that have never had a Bible before. This is a defining part of who we are. While I know there are and have been Catholic and Orthodox missionaries, I am unaware that nearly the same emphasis is put on these endeavors in your respective churches.