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November 16, 2017 By French Administrator Leave a Comment

First anniversary of the Bible Society in Azerbaijan, “a country that really needs the Bible”

A little over a year ago, the Bible Society in Azerbaijan was officially registered by the government’s Committee for Religious Affairs. This was the result of lots of hard work from the small local team, with the support of the UBS Fellowship. “God is really good to us at this very important time, as we […]

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November 10, 2017 By French Administrator Leave a Comment

A New Testament for peace

The Hungarian Bible Society recently launched a bilingual Ukrainian-Hungarian New Testament which will promote peace in a difficult context – tensions between Hungary and Ukraine due to new Ukrainian legislation against the use of the Hungarian language in Ukraine. Yet parts of Ukraine are actually Hungarian-speaking. “We pray that God will use these Scriptures to […]

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August 8, 2017 By French Administrator Leave a Comment

Modern Khmer Bible at the heart of the revival of the Cambodian Church

Over the past 20 years the Cambodian Church has experienced an extraordinary revival. Today there are 400,000 Christians in the country – a steep increase from the 5,000 Cambodian Christians in the 1990s. The Modern Khmer Bible, published in 1997, is at the heart of this revival. The translation happened in exile when Cambodia was […]

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March 29, 2017 By French Administrator Leave a Comment

A Bible for Burkina Faso’s Birifor speakers

Last July, Burkina Faso’s Birifor speakers, an indigenous people in the south-west of the country, were delighted at the news that work to translate the Bible into their language was restarting after halting several years ago due to a lack of funding. The project, now run by the Bible Society, will deliver the very first […]

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February 23, 2017 By French Administrator Leave a Comment

“In Africa, when an important chief arrives somewhere, people sing his praises …”

‘I grew up in a Lyélé village around 100 kms from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso ,…’ Maxime Bakiono, Ministry Resources Facilitator at United Bible Societies, speaks perfect French. It is, after all, the language that he speaks every day with his wife, who is from a different Burkina ethnic group, and his daughter. […]

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