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“Thank you for bringing me the Bible today,” 11-year-old Joy says, holding her new Good News Bible close. Soon she is turning the pages, eagerly searching for her favourite verse. “For God loved the world so much …” she begins, reciting John 3:16. For Joy, this is more than a book. It is now her very own precious Bible. “I’m so happy to have my own Bible,” she say...

“I come from a family of clergy. Yet the calm, everyday rhythm of pre-war life had dulled my desire to read the Bible. Yes, we had a Bible at home, but we never read it. And when we fled, we didn’t even think to bring it with us,” shares Zander*, a Ukrainian man in his 80s from the city of Mykolaiv.

Zander was a college history teacher and, though he was a part of the...

“Now that I have the Bible, I feel the Lord is right beside me, and he will help me,” shares Li*. She lives in the southeastern part of Sichuan Province, in southwestern China, and received her first Bible last year during a free Bible distribution event organised by her local church with the support of the United Bible Society’s China Partnership (UBSCP). Having her own Bibl...

Bible and stationery distribution at a school in Amman.

For 80 years, the United Bible Societies (UBS) Fellowship has worked to ensure that people everywhere can access God’s Word in a language and format they understand. Since Bible Societies first gathered in Elfinsward, United Kingdom, in 1946, the Fellowship has distributed an extraord...