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A national Catholic organization is making it a mission to put Bibles in the hands of students in college as a tool to help them in their faith.
"A staggering 79 percent of former Catholics leave the faith before the age of twenty-three," the Catholic evangelization organization, Word on Fire, says on its website .
"The vast majority of young people who leave their Christian faith do so around the high school to college age," Brandon Vogt, senior publishing director for Bishop Robert Barron's Word on Fire ministry, told Fox News Digital .
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"And so we thought, well, if that's when they're leaving, then we need to go out there and meet them in that cri