Christians around the world are under siege. Children cannot attend school. Families have been driven from their homes. Lives are in danger. Across the Middle East and Africa, violence is rampant. Rebels raid villages with guns and knives in the early morning hours. Militants kidnap children. Families are forced to… Read More

Forty-year-old Ishaku was filled with rage, and he had every reason to be. He saw firsthand the ravaging destruction bloodthirsty terrorists had leveled against his people and hometown just outside of Maiduguri, Nigeria. When militants attacked, he fled with his young family to the mountains in the northeast of the… Read More

More than a billion people today don’t have the complete Bible translated into their heart language. But through the support of our financial partners, American Bible Society is working to get the Bible to every person on earth, no matter where they live or what language they prefer. That commitment… Read More

A new Bible translation was recently completed for Ethiopia’s Tigrai people group, whose heart language is Tigrigna. Although other Bible translations circulated within the Tigrai community for a decade, Tigrigna speakers could not understand them. But thanks to the new Tigrigna Bible translation, 4.5 million Tigrai people now have access… Read More

Even on a cloudless day, sunlight rarely permeates Aholou’s mud and straw hut. Located in Togo, West Africa, the home is completely sheltered from the light, a mandate imposed by her father. But Aholou’s father’s behavior has kept her family from experiencing more than just sunlight. For as long… Read More

If you walk through a bookstore in Tanzania’s Kigoma Region—a lakeside territory in the northwest corner of the country—you may overhear customers asking an excited and increasingly common question: “When will the Kiha Bible be available?” Over the course of a decade, the Ha tribe in Kigoma Region has watched… Read More

Kiho*, a ten-year-old boy from eastern Uganda, sat speechless in a small classroom. Facilitators of a Bible-based trauma healing session—organized for young victims of disaster and abuse—smiled next to him. The facilitators could tell he had something to say. They just didn’t know how to reach him. Eventually, Kiho burst… Read More

While awaiting the birth of her child, Sarafina* had nowhere to go. Liberian soldiers had murdered her parents during a violent uprising. And her aunt—who adopted her at a young age—wanted nothing to do with a single, pregnant teenage girl. So, while searching for a place to call home, Sarafina… Read More

When two homeless men stumbled into his church in Mali—a large desert country in West Africa—Pastor Sylvain immediately came to their aid. He listened as they spoke of their recent escape from Liberia, where violence and unrest had driven them from the country. He listened as they shared a… Read More

Several new Bible translation projects in Angola are nearing completion, thanks to support from American Bible Society’s financial partners. With computers, translation software and hands-on training from the Every Tribe Every Nation alliance, translators are getting God’s Word into the heart languages of waiting Angolans faster than ever. In the… Read More