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When H’Ngoih Ten Thong Goi was five years old her parents were murdered and she was enslaved to a neighbouring tribe. She was a member of the Bunong ethnic minority group in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region. Pastor Kun from another ethnic minority group, the Rade, had come to the area to share God’s Word with [...]
“Today, from the bottom of my heart, I praise God for the Bible in my own language.” The Rev Ainap Tao’s words were greeted with heartfelt applause by the thousands of Wa Christians who had gathered in eastern Myanmar to celebrate the launch last month of the Revised Wa Bible. For Mr Ainap, who leads [...]
Following several months of preparations, the long-awaited Common Language Kikamba Bible was launched by the Bible Society of Kenya on April 14 in a colourful event held at Scott Theological College in Machakos. This was a memorable event for both the Kenyan Church and the Akamba people, since the new Bible has two editions, one [...]
Christianity is growing fast among Vietnam’s 50 or so minority ethnic groups. In fact, today they account for around 60 per cent of the country’s Protestant Christians. Many of them are eager to have the Bible in their language, and UBS’s Vietnam Partnership is working with the churches to make that happen. Lifelong dream “I [...]
“It’s not all over for us, even if society has rejected us,” a prisoner we’ll call S.J. wrote recently to the Haitian Bible Society. He and his cellmates came to this realisation through reading Bibles supplied to them by the Society. There are currently around 6,000 prisoners in Haiti. They live in harsh conditions, not [...]
How can Togo’s children be encouraged to take Christian values into their hearts? The Bible Society is attempting to address this concern with its project Children Growing up With God’s Word, through which colouring Bibles are being distributed in primary schools. “Before, when I read a Bible story, I made up my own ideas about [...]
The literacy work carried out by United Bible Societies (UBS) and its 146 member Bible Societies across the world has been given official recognition by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). With more than 150 literacy projects in 70 countries, UBS’s wide international reach was an important contributing factor to its UNESCO [...]
Exhibitions, special events and publications bearing the slogan 200 Years of Bible Competence will mark the bicentenary this year of the founding of German Bible organisation Württembergische Bibelanstalt. The organisation’s Bible publishing work is now undertaken by the German Bible Society, founded in 1981, while its Bible-related ministry in the Württemberg region is undertaken by [...]
Thanks to the Malta Bible Society, every school on the island now has a new Bible DVD resource which can be used flexibly with students of different ages. The set of DVDs – called ‘Gheruqna’, which means ‘our Christian roots’ – was created especially for the Society’s school project in partnership with CAM Productions, a [...]
Paddling their boats upstream for hours, then walking for two, even three, days through the tropical rainforest: speakers of Patamuna stopped at nothing to attend the dedication of the revised New Testament in their language. There are fewer than 5,000 speakers of Patamuna, spread across a handful of isolated villages in what is known as [...]