James Maxey, Antonia Carcelen-Estrada and Stefano Arduini engage in a discussion at the Nida School. (Photo courtesy of the Nida Institute.) For two weeks in May, more than 50 translation scholars and practitioners from all over the world convened for the 2011 Nida School of Translation Studies in Misano… Read More

(Photo by Lucy Barnes.) Vickie and Lamar Vest recently gathered with HRH the Prince of Wales in London for one of several events celebrating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. Dr. Vest is a trustee for the King James Trust, the global organizing committee for this anniversary. Read More

KJV title page. (Photo courtesy of American Bible Society’s Rare Scriptures Collection) This year commemorates the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible. Known today for its elegance, the KJV has immeasurably shaped the rhetoric and literary expression of generations of English… Read More

Col. Jack Graham III pictured, at lower right, at age 4, with his parents Ella and Jack Graham II, and sister Enid, in Miao costumes, South Yunnan Province, China, in 1935. (Photo courtesy of Col. Jack Graham III) Nearly 70 years after being held at an internment camp in… Read More

73 year-old Yan Hanquan, one of the original translators of the East Lisu New Testament, is overjoyed to see his work finally come to fruition. Photo by UBSCP/Yeo Tan Tan. In thanksgiving ceremonies last fall, church leaders unveiled the newly translated Bible for the Miao and the New Testament… Read More

Scripture portions distributed to the homeless More than 1.3 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their heart language. God's Word has been translated into Mandarin, as well as nine minority languages. But, there are 55 minority languages and an unknown number of dialects within each minority language. Read More

Brazil’s Bible Society printed a record number of Bibles in 2009. Photo by ThrowingLight.com The Bible Society of Brazil (BSB) is commemorating an unprecedented accomplishment: in 2009, the BSB surpassed its record by 5.7 percent—it distributed 6 million Bibles in Brazil and across the globe. Rudi Zimmer, general secretary… Read More

Jenny and the Bible she found in Rwanda’s jungle. Photo by Erle S. Deira. Deep in the jungle in Kigali, Rwanda, a few months ago, a torn Bible lay on the ground. Curious, Jenny, pictured, picked it up and hasn't let it go ever since. Here she displays her… Read More

Copies of the Miao Bible at its launch at The congregation at a Miao church in Manpo, Yunnan Province, China. Daqing Village Church in Yunnan Province, China, September 2009. The Big Flowery Miao have had the New Testament in their everyday language since 1917, when a missionary named Sam… Read More

More than 1.3 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their heart language. God's Word has been translated into Mandarin, as well as nine minority languages. But, there are 55 minority languages and an unknown number of dialects within each minority language. This means there are still millions of… Read More