by Canadian Bible Society | Sep 10, 2021 | Articles, Stories
Andrea Chávez, 16, is serving a sentence of nine years and ten months in a Detention Centre for Minors in Guatemala. Andrea was eight when her mother died and the family disintegrated. At 11 she was sexually abused, began using drugs and joined a criminal gang. A time...
by Canadian Bible Society | Sep 10, 2021 | Articles, Stories
In Kalbale, Uganda, Phiona grew up blind, ridiculed by other children, and burdened with the knowledge that her father had discarded her in a pit just days after her birth. A Braille Bible provided by donors through the Bible Society of Uganda launched her on a path...
by Canadian Bible Society | Sep 10, 2021 | Articles, Stories
On the other side of the world, in Myanmar, translator Rev. Thang Ngai Om wept as he held the first Bible in his language – Cho Chin. Years of travelling long distances between his home and the translation office and taking great risks in crossing flooded rivers in...
by Canadian Bible Society | Sep 2, 2021 | Articles, Stories
Ellomwe is a language spoken by nearly 2.3 million people in Malawi. In 2019, overjoyed Ellomwe speakers marched around the town of Chiringa, carrying a giant replica of the new Bible to symbolize the arrival of God’s Word in their midst. Just five years earlier, they...
by Canadian Bible Society | Jul 11, 2021 | Articles, Stories
Here’s some of what you have helped make possible, as of Spring of 2021: In the last five years, Bible Societies around the world have completed Scripture translation in over 270 languages used by 1.7 billion people. The number of the world’s 7,000+ languages...
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