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The CLC bookstore in Valencia, Spain. / Google Maps
The year it celebrated its 55th anniversary in Spain, the ministry Christian Literature Centre (CLC) announced at the end of November the closure of all its operations in the country.
The work
began in 1966, explains the theologian and
Evangelical Focus author José de Segovia, whose parents were responsible for creating a Spanish delegation of the English mission founded in 1941.
“My parents thought that the international name Crusade , which CLC had had since its inception, was inappropriate in Spain because that was how dictator Franscico Franco called the military uprising that started the Civil War, so that they changed the name to Centre , keeping the acronym and the logo of the mission and its evangelistic purpose”, he explains.