21 More Languages Now Have the Bible

Translator’s Training Centre
Visitors Affirm Bible Society Role at Baptist World Congress
New Baptist President Wants Special Bible for Baptists
God’s Vision Begins with the Word
Aborigines Dance their Church History
Murder of Villagers Shocks Baptist Congress

Bible Society Takes Scriptures to Teenage Offenders (Ukraine)
Bible Brings Peace for Children Suffering from Nuclear Fallout (Ukraine)
Child’s Games Led to Priesthood (Ukraine)
Bibles Change Lives for Disabled Children (Ukraine)
Policeman’s About-Face (Ukraine)
The Book That Changed Nina’s Life (Ukraine)
Flying Archbishop Hails Bible Work (Ukraine)
Bible Exhibition Aims to Interest Non-Churchgoers (Austria)
Latvian Bible Society Celebrates a Decade of Achievement

New Bible Resource Centre Opens in Kuwait
Gaza Bookshop ‘A Testament of Love’ (West Bank & Gaza)
A New Battle (Israel)
A ‘Guiding Light’ from the Bible (Israel)

‘Jesus Saved Me From Drugs’ (Brazil)

When the Word of God is ‘Sweet Like Honey’ (Papua New Guinea)

Grannies Bicycle for the Bible (USA)

Bible Leaders Killed in Air Disaster (Côte d’Ivoire)
Life-Saving Telephone Call (Bénin)
Christ's Challenge to Bénin’s Youth
Women Make a Statement in Bénin
Bible Launch Follows Miracle Escape (Sudan)
Rwanda: the Search for Real Reconciliation Carries On
Reaching Angola’s ‘Lost’ Generation
Bibles Brings Change to Angola’s Jails

Bible News in Brief

Looking Back (Brazil & Argentina)

World Watch

Look out for the Opportunity 21 star logo in this and future issues of World Report or Special Report! The logo (right) will identify stories relating to the huge $90-million Opportunity 21 program involving Bible Societies and other agencies.

World Report is published by the United Bible Societies’ World Service Center,

Reading Bridge House, Reading, England, RG1 8PJ

Telephone: +44 (0)118 – 9500200    Fax: +44 (0)118 – 9500857

UBS Website: http://www.biblesociety.org

General Secretary: Rev Fergus Macdonald

Head of Communications Services: Larry Jerden

Chief Editor:  Geoffrey Stamp                                                       Operations Manager:  Joan Prebble

Associate Editor:  Andrew Mathewson               Electronic Communications Manager:  Julian Phillips

Junior Writer:  Andrea Rhodes                                                                    Photo Editor:  Julie Morris

Communications Secretary:  Coral Lazenbury                          Archivist/Librarian:  Andrew Whiteside

Spanish Translator:  Ruth Harris                                                       French Translator:  Claire Bedot