Battling HIV/AIDS in Africa

Home-Based Care workers visit an HIV/AIDS patient in a poor area of Nairobi, Kenya. African Evangelistic Enterprise, supported by the Bible Society in Australia (New South Wales), is running an HIV/AIDS Awareness Project and a Home-Based Care Project in areas like this one. Photo by Martin Johnson. In his… Read More

New Hope for the Blind in Burkina Faso

Rev. Tarnagda (who is visually impaired) proudly displays the New Testament in Mooré Braille in the yard of the Boulsa Center for the Blind, Burkina Faso. Photo by Boubakar Ouedraogo. The ceremony took place on March 24 at the headquarters of the Bible Society of Burkina Faso (BSBF) in… Read More

The Challenge of the Great Commission

Photo by Andrew Hood Riding through the rural countryside of Burundi, you cannot help but be impressed by the vastness of the African landscape. One easily could get lost traveling the cratered roads that twist along the lakes, mountains and forests. Despite the fact that Burundi is one of… Read More

Leading a Multitude

Photo by Dag Smemo Pastoral overload. It’s quite possibly the dilemma of every pastor in the world today. There are always people to visit, budgets to balance and sermons to write. There never are enough hours in the day. But what if you serve a flock made up of… Read More

God's Word for At-Risk Nicaraguan Children

12-year-old member of the Iglesia Alégrate en Dios church, Leyla Esperanza Sosa Bustamante was one of the children who benefitted from the Bible studies. Unemployment and poverty have kept Nicaraguan children out of school. In a project of the Bible Society of Nicaragua, more than 19,000 at-risk children… Read More

Changing Lives through Literacy

A small boy reading from a Bible Comic supplied by the Bible Society of Sudan. Photo by United Bible Societies. At last I know how to read and write my name…exclaims a delighted Kuku Kanyar. Kuku Kanyar, 65, is a Nuba Moro man who for the past three… Read More

Prayer for Gaza

Street life in Gaza City. West Bank. Photo by Stephen Wilson Dear Bible Society friends and colleagues, Our hearts are broken as we witness the escalation of hostilities in Gaza and southern Israel. We invite you all to join us in praying for a speedy end to this terrible… Read More

A Happy End

A church planter from End to End, left, follows up with a young man in Nigeria. Photo by Pascal Folly. In Tonti, Nigeria, a man is so moved by watching The JESUS Film that he expresses his faith in Christ. The moment is life-changing. “He used to talk… Read More

Braille Celebration

Scripture for the blind owes much to Louis Braille, who was born 200 years ago. Photo by Dag Smemo. Louis Braille was three years old when an accident in his father’s harness workshop left him permanently blind. He was… Read More

Winter 2009 – Please Pray

BURUNDI Pray for the literacy program conducted through the local Bible Society in Burundi. Sixty-five percent of the nation is illiterate: School dropout rates are high as a result of civil war and poverty. Pray for those who accept the Bible as reading and literacy learning material. IRAQ Praise God… Read More