UBS World Report
September
2002, Number
370
 Having
fun with Scriptures and sport in Lebanon [More...]
Security tight at World Cup in Japan [More...]
Matthew’s Gospel distributed at World
Youth Day [More...]
An old woman’s dream [More...]
Focus on Burkina Faso [More...]
Pictured
right : One of the eighty children aged between 7 and 11 years who attended
the three-day KidsGames event reads The Supreme Goal pamphlet published
by the Bible Society as a farewell gift. (LEB02DJ-1.JPG)
Contents
 To
see ourselves as others see us: conducting research in rural Thailand
Security tight at World Cup in Japan
World Cup Portion a winner in South Korea
Portion for Fijians “bittersweet”
Translator floated Cho Chin manuscripts to safety
(Myanmar)
Good news for the people of Kiribati
Translator braves the waves to save bookshop
(Kiribati)
Message of Hope (Fiji)
A man living to
translate God’s Word (Argentina)
Overcoming the opposition to translate God’s
Word (Argentina)
Canadian Bible Society adds third web ministry
Matthew’s Gospel distributed at World Youth
Day (Canada)
ABS wins award and produces children’s collection
(United States)
An old woman’s
dream (Armenia)
KidsGames brings God’s Word to children in
Lebanon
High hopes for revised Segond Bible (Belgium)
Bahrain’s
new Bible Centre offers improved facilities
Leading New Testament scholar retires (Germany)
Jean-Dominique Barthélemy: a tribute
(Switzerland)
Distribution at Commonwealth Games (England)
Warm response to Just for Kids tour of Iraq
Focus on Burkina Faso:
New Scripture will boost churches
Conversions, renewal and a new
understanding of God’s Word
Archbishop reckons up benefits
of interconfessional translations
Malagasy people
turn to Bible for comfort
CAP offers exciting prospects for translation work
in Africa
Kenya’s Abanyore
people get complete Bible — after nearly 100 years!
New Reader Portions assist in Rwanda literacy
project
Improved climate for work in Angola
General Secretary visits train crash victims
(Mozambique)
Bible Society of Mauritius receives Bibles
and tests audio Scriptures
Bikers’ Bible changes lives in South Africa
Bible work in Lesotho facing ‘significant
challenges’
‘Project Long Walk’ : Alan Stranex relates
his experiences (South Africa)
Societies in Southern Africa seek to help
starving
Bibles unsold as Malawians face stark choices
Regional Secretary beaten up and robbed (Togo)
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