Released on = June 8, 2006, 9:45 am

Press Release Author = Family Reading Ministries, Inc

Industry = Management

Press Release Summary = The three-day event which brings together Christian authors
of secular and spiritual books, publishers of such books, others from across the US
and around the world for networking, book marketing and sales, seminars, panel
discussions, and personal ministry to visitors is set to promote peace.

Press Release Body = Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack has been invited to declare open the
August 4-6 Christian Book Fair in Dubuque Iowa, which brings together Christian
authors of secular and spiritual books, publishers of such books, and others from
across the US and other countries for networking, book marketing and sales,
seminars, discussions, and ministry to visitors.

This year's theme, "Building Bridges of Peace Through Books", was chosen against
the backdrop of high casualty Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East, the
genocide in Darfur Sudan that has claimed UN estimated 200, 000 lives and displaced
about 3 million people, and the fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo that
has reportedly taken 3.3 million lives and displaced about 2.25 million people since
1998, among others.

Organizers, Family Reading Ministries, Inc. Iowa, believe there has never been a
better time for books to mirror and promote peace than now when statistics by
US-based book tracking firm, R.R. Bowker, show that there have been significant
increases in the number of books published, the number of publishers and the amount
of revenue derived from book sales in recent years.

"It therefore behooves the book trade to turn those statistics into assets for
global peace," opines Family Reading Ministries, Inc. founder Paschal Eze, adding
that drawing author, publisher and other participants from across the US and around
the world places on the annual Christian Book Fair International in Iowa the
challenge to plead the cause of peace.

Other speakers at the event include Rateb Y. Rabie, President of the Bethesda
Maryland-based Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation, which helps persecuted
Palestinian Christians, who will keynote the August 5 headline event at which a book
at the fair that promotes peace would be awarded the founder's Print of Peace Award.

At the 2005 event, exhibitors came from across the US and countries like Canada,
United Kingdom, Croatia and India.

For more information on the event, please visit event website,
www.christian-book-fair.com or call Shanita Michelle at 3199366140 or 3193519695.


Web Site = http://www.christian-book-fair.com

Contact Details = P.O.Box 5145 Coralville Iowa.
Phone: 3193519695
www.christian-book-fair.com