UBS World Report
October
2001, Number
363
Grateful
for God’s Word
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UBS appoints
new
General Secretary
l How
Bible literacy schemes are changing
rural Haiti
l Focus
on Bible work
in Côte d’Ivoire
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This woman (left) from Tatarstan,
Russian Federation, was overcome with emotion when she received a copy
of the Kreshen Scriptures (see story)
Contents
UBS
Appoints new General Secretary
Megavoice device undergoes worldwide trials
Haiti focus:
 Bible
Society looks for a location where there are no gunmen
O-21
progress encourages partner ministries
How Bible literacy schemes are
changing rural Haiti
No more upside-down Bibles
From Carnival to Christianity:
a student’s testimony
High-quality David videos compete in commercial
marketplace (USA)
American Bible Society Office for Latino Affairs
co-operates
with drugs and alcohol ministry (USA)
Christian art exhibition reclaims ‘rejected
medium’ (Costa Rica)
 ‘The
Bible is beneficial in many ways’ (Thailand)
‘God opened a way for me – a Bible student’s
testimony (Thailand)
Shedding the weight of spirit worship (Thailand)
Vietnam celebrates production of one million
New Testaments
How a helicopter helped carry the Bible to children
in hospital
(New Zealand)
 Focus
on : Côte d’Ivoire
Making the Bible available in
a pluralist society
Bringing hope to drug addicts
and prostitutes
Roman Catholic Church and Bible
Society unite around
the
Word of God
Photo
story: Yamoussoukro’s basilica
Warm tributes paid
to ‘Papa Nlandu’ after 24 years’ service (DR Congo)
Bible inspires woman to serve people with AIDS
(Ethiopia)
‘Born evangelist’ led to Bible Society
work (Ethiopia)
How a blind man gained clear vision: a true story
(Ethiopia)
Scriptures looted after Bible Society pick-up crash
(Uganda)
Kreshen
Gospels and Psalms welcomed in city and village (Russian Fed.)
John Dean: ‘a good man, full of the Holy Spirit
and faith’ (UK)
Cooks and waiters given special New Testament
(Germany)
Society aims to reach holidaymakers on the move
(Egypt)
Bible People in
the News
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