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Scripture in 43 Languages for the First Time

Speakers of 43 languages had translations of the Christian Scriptures available to them for the first time in 2009. The full Bible was translated in eight of these ...

Bible Still Top-seller in NZ

Bible Society distributed 77,500 full Bibles within New Zealand in 2009 which is over 10,000 more Bibles than were distributed in the previous year. More than 12,000 of ...

Bibles in China Top 50 Million Mark

 Following a record 4 million Bibles printed at the Amity Press in China last year, the total number of Bibles printed there since the Press was established in ...

BIBLE SOCIETY SETS SAIL FOR PARACHUTE

We’re excited to announce that we’ll again be supporting Parachute Festival as official sponsors. Parachute Festival is the largest Christian music ...

Bible Societies bring help to Haiti

UBS Americas Area Secretary Melvin Rivera describes the initial response the Bible Societies are making to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January ...

New Chief Executive for Bible Society

Francis Burdett has been appointed Chief Executive of Bible Society New Zealand. His appointment was announced last week by the chairman of the Bible Society Board, ...

240,000 SCHOOL CHILDREN RECEIVE TARORE BOOK

In just ten weeks, more than 240,000 copies of Joy Cowley’s new book, Tarore and Her Book, have been distributed to primary school aged children in New ...

E100 Bible Reading Challenge

With less than a quarter of Kiwi Christians reading their Bibles each week, Bible Society have launched into a strategic partnership with Scripture Union and Wycliffe ...

Applications for CEO role now closed

The process of selecting our new Chief Executive has changed gear with the final date for applications having passed.The selection committee has now begun the process ...

Tarore and Her Book Launched in Matamata

“You’re the very first children in New Zealand to receive your own copy of Tarore and Her Book by Joy Cowley.  Are you excited about that?” ...

Busking for Bibles

On the Northshore, a sermon delivered for National Bible Sunday about the shortage of Bible translations around the world had a profound impact on one young woman, ...

Bible Society Looks for New Leader

With present Chief Executive Rev Mark Brown advising the Bible Society Board that he will not be taking up the option to renew his contract, the search has begun to ...

Tokelau NT launch

Long Wait Ends in Joyous Celebration “For the 160 years that Christianity has been in Tokelau we have had no Bible. But God has been very good and gracious ...

Joy Cowley Writing Tarore Story

Award winning author, Joy Cowley, has teamed up with Bible Society to write the remarkable story of Tarore. In 1835, Bible Society published 100 copies of the Gospel of ...

Bible Society all a Twitter

 Twitter is the latest internet sensation.  In short it provides a way of communicating quickly to a group of people, termed ‘fol...

Scripture now in 2,479 Languages

Although it may mean having only one book of the Bible or, conversely, a full Bible, there are 2,479 languages which had access to Scripture as at 31 December 2008, ...