World Report
December 1999
Number 346

Bible Message for New Era


n The Bible is Good News for David who has found
a new way of life at the New Hope Centre in Uganda.

 
Millennium Projects
New Scriptures for Mexican flood victims
First major scripture in a Caribbean language
First Bible in the Rotuma language
Last Christmas this century
Cyclone victims in Orissa, India


n A customer browses in the
Wenzhou Bible Distribution Centre

Contents

WORLD
Sport Ministries Share Ideas Ahead of Sydney Olympics
Have You Surfed the UBS Intranet?

Looking Back
MILLENNIUM PROJECTS
Reaching the Masses (India)
Priceless Treasures (Hong Kong)
Beyond 2000 (Tanzania)
Hallelujah Chorus (Sri Lanka)
Bible Reading in the Year 2000 (New Zealand)
One Million Scripture Packages (Egypt)
AMERICAS
Call for the Bible as Floodwaters Rise in Mexico
Flood Victims 'Hungry for Bibles' (USA)
First Creole New Testament in the Caribbean (St Lucia)
Hearing Promotes Bible Work (Guatemala)
AFRICA
Children Of New Hope (Uganda)
Moon Man's Mission (D R Congo)
Breakdown That Led to Soul Repairs (D R Congo)
"Take Me To This Pastor" (D R Congo)
Sudan Offers Model for Partnerships
ASIA-PACIFIC
Rotuman Bible Brings New Hope (Rotuma, Fiji)
Friendly and Fiji Islands – A BFBS Report (1869)
Twenty-two Million and Counting (P R China)
Finding Jesus in a Foreign Land (Thailand)
From 'Killing Fields' to 'Living Fields' (Cambodia)
EUROPE-MIDDLE EAST
Young People Gather to Show Bible's Relevance (Romania)
Last Christmas this Millennium! (West Bank)
FUNDRAISING IN THE UBS
First Bible Society Fundraising Event Held in Swaziland
 
STOP PRESS:
M
acau Handover With Peace
Bible House Staff Shelter Cyclone Victims (India)
World Watch
Bible News in Brief...

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