Gun Policy News
Bibles for Guns Program in Dominican Republic Nets 1300 Weapons
10 December 2013
Global Dispatch (Florida)
Dominican Republic officials and evangelicals are asking residents of violent DR neighborhoods to trade in their weapons for a Bible.
Santo Domingo authorities recovered more than 1,300 firearms, knives, and machetes in communities known for corruption and violence, in a guns-for-Bibles program, aimed at reducing the country's crime rate.
Church leaders went into some dangerous neighborhoods to spread the word of God to gangsters and other criminals as part of the... (GunPolicy.org)