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Prohibited from leaving the state without permission, he asked to travel to the District on Jan. 6, 2021, so that he could hand out Bibles on behalf of the Christian group The Gideons International.

The men founded Gideons International in 1899 and have distributed more than 2 billion Bibles and New Testaments.

Marriott gets the Bibles for free from Gideons International, a group that donates Bibles to prisons, hospitals, hotels and other public places.

He recently celebrated 75 years with this “body of believers dedicated to making the �������t¶�� of God available to everyone,” according to the Gideons International website at www2.gideons.org.

Jeff Pack, Gideons International’s director of communications, said he isn’t sure why the STR survey shows a decline in religious material in hotel rooms, considering that the distribution of Bibles by his group hasn’t dropped.