Scrambling for Bibles
The world may have moved in next door, but non-English Scriptures remain frustratingly hard to find.
Christopher Lewis | posted 8/30/2007 09:16AM
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"For the church working with the diaspora, it's really disappointing that [such a website] doesn't exist," said Roberto Laver, the Forum's executive director. "But we're operating in a very decentralized world of Scripture information. It's difficult to get buy-in from everyone."
In 1816, ABS founders stood on the steps of the newly built City Hall in New York City and pledged to disseminate Bibles "until the whole Earth be full of the knowledge of Jehovah."
Although more Bible translations exist today than ever before—2,400 languages have at least a portion of Scripture—the ABS's goal remains elusive. Better cooperation between Bible ministries would go a long way toward fulfilling it.
Christopher Lewis is a freelance journalist based in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Related Elsewhere:
The International Bible Society has PDFs of many foreign language Bible translations, in addition to the foreign language Bibles it publishes.
United Bible Societies
reported that its offices distributed over 11 million Bibles in the Americas last year, 2 million in the U.S.
The Bible League, Bibles.com, and Multi-Language Media also distribute foreign-language Bibles.
The Forum of Bible Agencies has a list of members.
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