Seen by more than 5 billion people

The most watched movie in history is the Jesus film, having been seen by more than 2 billion people and translated into more than 760 languages and dialects.  By July 1, 2007, it's been seen by 5 billion people.

With that success, it's not a surprise that talking bibles and cellphone bibles are being used by Christian missionaries to expand the audience and influence of the world's largest religion.  The Washington Post tells the story of Plugging the Planet into the Word.

In Cambodia, flooded with missionaries since the early 1990s after a decade of war and the Khmer Rouge left the country devastated with almost 2 million killed or dead of starvation, the director of the National Buddhist Institute said

We are getting used to globalization, but it is important to maintain our identity.  For centuries and centuries we have been Buddhists.

But, he added, people have a right to choose their religion, and the government is grateful for the medicine, food and manpower that Christian groups are bringing. As for the Christian literacy program, he said, "If Buddhists worry about it, they should teach children to read, too."
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Im's father, Sum Tel Thoen, 37, a fisherman, said he didn't care that Christians were teaching his daughter. "It doesn't matter if my daughter is Christian. My focus is education," he said. "I can't read or write. I want my daughter to."