by Canadian Bible Society | Sep 23, 2021 | Articles, Stories
Hannah will never forget the night her family awoke to shouts and gunfire engulfing their town. “While all the gunmen were screaming and running out of the building, all in one direction, we were silently praying for God’s guidance to help us escape,” she remembers....
by Canadian Bible Society | Sep 23, 2021 | Articles, Stories
Madam Niu’s father preached the gospel in China for over fifty years, from age 18, until the Cultural Revolution in 1966 saw him publicly punished, humiliated, and tortured. Once, he was paraded in the streets wearing a placard identifying him as a Christian. He had...
by Canadian Bible Society | Sep 22, 2021 | Articles, Stories
By age two, Lorena was blind from a congenital illness, the central fact in her childhood in Costa Rica, also marked by extreme poverty, hunger and sexual abuse. At the tender age of 14, Lorena became pregnant and gave birth to Tania. Tragically, Tania inherited the...
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...
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