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
Have you ever felt distant from God? Even as a Christian, have you ever felt far away from your Savior? That’s how Marie in Rwanda used to feel. “I was a Christian, but I could not understand who God was,” Marie says. She visited multiple churches in her… Read More
In October 2016, Yaofang received a treasure beyond her wildest dreams—a Bible in her native language of Black Yi. “I never thought that I would have a Bible,” Yaofang explains, “let alone one in my own language.” There are 800,000 Black Yi speakers like Yaofang in rural… Read More
You open your Bible to 1 Peter 3:15. You read to yourself, “But have asking for Christ in your hearts.” Asking in your hearts? You’re confused. You know you’re missing something. One pastor in Malawi had this exact experience. He kept reading the word kupemba in… Read More
This Saturday, September 30, is International Translation Day. And there’s a great deal to celebrate on this day. Thanks to centuries of translation work, God’s Word is now in 3,000 languages, reaching 6 billion people. For centuries, translators have endured difficult living conditions and impossible work environments… Read More
To celebrate International Translation Day (September 30, 2017), please join us in praying for God’s Word to be translated in each person’s native language by 2026. People around the world are longing to hear the good news of the Bible. But many are still waiting for God’s… Read More
Young Quiché speakers in Guatemala cannot read their Bibles. Why? Mayan Languages Academy in Guatemala recently created a new alphabet for the Quiché language, which means Quiché children and youth are being taught a different alphabet than the outdated one printed in their Bibles. Manuela Cotiy Suy, a… Read More
In September 2016, American Bible Society celebrated the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking Good News Translation—one of the world’s first Bible translations to present God’s Word in simple, everyday English. The New Testament was originally published as Good News for Modern Man in 1966 and… Read More
