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  • Bible's strong comeback surprises secular Norway

    06/06/2013 10:49:08 AM PDT · by Kartographer · 22 replies
    AP via Yahoo News ^ | 6/6/13 | SALEHA MOHSIN
    It may sound like an unlikely No. 1 best-seller for any country, but in Norway — one of the most secular nations in an increasingly godless Europe — the runaway popularity of the Bible has caught the country by surprise. The Scriptures, in a new Norwegian language version, even outpaced "Fifty Shades of Grey" to become Norway's best-selling book. The sudden burst of interest in God's word has also spread to the stage, with a six-hour play called "Bibelen," Norwegian for "the Bible," drawing 16,000 people in a three-month run that recently ended at one of Oslo's most prominent theaters....