After 12 years of work by the Bible Society and many dedicated translators, Fiji’s Maumi people have received their first New Testament in their heart language! The translated books were distributed among the Maumi, and Chief Tui Maumi Saimoni Caucau thanked the Bible Society and asked it to continue with… Read More
American Bible Society today honors the start of National Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States and shares new insights on how Hispanic Americans have found support in their faith communities amid a global pandemic that has impacted them in disproportionally severe ways. In a June 2020 general… Read More
American Bible Society has a long history of sharing God’s Word by all means possible. In 1817, we loaded Bibles onto the U.S.S. John Adams—a Navy vessel that fought pirates. In 1860, we custom-made Bibles for the riders of the Pony Express as they delivered mail between Missouri and California. Read More
In Niger, West Africa, where many live under the pressure of poverty, violence, and terrorism, children often act out. Samira* was one of those children. “My life was a life of disobedience and rebellion against my parents,” she admits. But Samira found hope because of friends like you who… Read More
Imagine not knowing much of what goes on around you because you don’t understand the language — even among your own people. That is the isolation and fear many deaf people live with daily. Sign languages — over 400 in the world — have their own syntax and… Read More
As a young, married woman, Elise* lived a simple but peaceful life in Rwanda, where she was born. Then a violent civil war broke out and many people fled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to escape persecution. History would call this volatile period the Rwandan… Read More
Nguyen* was running a small business in Vietnam when he first realized something was wrong in his life. His sole focus in life was work, and he felt very stressed and worn out. “I knew there had to be more to life than this,” he says. One… Read More
There are more than 1 million people in Vietnam who are deaf. The majority of these people are ostracized from society and were never taught to read. They have been denied not only educational opportunities, but also the chance to know their Creator through the Bible. Too often, our… Read More
Camila* has a strong desire to serve God . . . even though her family doesn’t always understand. “I have three sons and one daughter. My family and children say I should leave the church. But I said, ‘No, I cannot.’ I want to continue forward with the… Read More
In August 2020, the number of languages with full Bible translations hit 700 for the first time. We celebrate that more than 5.7 billion people—or around 80 percent of the global population—now have the full Bible in their heart language. At this milestone moment, we thank God for the promise… Read More
