A deaf translation center has been established to bring the full Bible to Nigeria’s deaf community. Until now, many people within this community struggled to read written Scripture. Now, they’re receiving God’s Word alive and in motion, and it’s transforming their understanding of the God who loves them. Pray:… Read More

For 88 years, Ataners Mollel waited. A shepherd in rural East Africa, he waited for hope, for peace, and for Good News. Now through American Bible Society’s special ministry outreach in Tanzania, Mollel’s wait has ended. Mollel’s journey of faith began when he saw the JESUS Film. He… Read More

Bangou grew up in a large family that practiced idolatry. While he considered himself a Christian, he had not yet read the Bible. “Without a Bible, I could not move forward in faith,” he says. “I lived my Christian life the way I wanted by ignorance.” It would have been… Read More

Drums beating. Voices raised in song. Beads clanking. Feet dancing to the beat. All of this could only mean one thing. Someone important, like a chief or a king, was arriving in this small Burkina Faso village. But Maxime Bakiono, a local villager and a former leader of the Bible… Read More

Vestine never had a chance for a normal life. The 24-year-old was just a small child when 800,000 men, women and children perished in the 1984 Rwandan genocide. She lost her mother and everything that was familiar. Vestine was forced to quit school and go live with an older brother. Read More

Although Hamia* grew up in a Christian home in Algeria, she didn’t become a Christian until she was fourteen years old. Until then, she was afraid to accept Jesus as her Savior. Christians are a minority in Algeria — less than one percent of the population, so in… Read More

Thirty-year-old Chandiru* lives in Uganda. From childhood, she rebelled against her parents. She left home and married when she was only 17 years old. For much of her life, she says, she was a “hot-tempered, quarrelsome, fighting woman.” One day, Chandiru’s husband returned home drunk. Because Chandiru had… Read More

Thanks to a collaboration with the Bible Society of Ghana, the first ever African Study Bible launched this year. Described by a church leader as “God’s Word through African eyes,” the African Study Bible was put together by 350 contributors from 50 African countries. “This new Bible should not be… Read More

Nigeria’s large Tiv-speaking community received a powerful new tool for evangelism recently: the Revised Tiv Bible was officially launched by the Bible Society of Nigeria in the city of Makurdi before a gathering of more than 750 Christians. The vast majority of the country’s more than four million… Read More

Ten-year-old Emmanuel lives in Malawi. He started attending Sunday school when he was just a little boy. One of the reasons he loves church is because of the Bible there. He’s never had one at home. While at church, Emmanuel looked at the Bible. As his small hands… Read More