Bible Society work in Uganda
 Bible
Society of UgandaPO Box 3621 Kampala Uganda Tel: +256 (0)41-251165 +256 (0)41-251166 email: info@biblesociety-uganda.org |
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Country Data:
| Area: | 241,040 sq.km. | |
| Population: | 22,800,000 (1999) | |
| Annual Per Capita Income: | US$300 (2000) | |
| Literate Population: | 61.9% (1995) | |
| Religions in % of Population (1998): | Roman Catholic |
33%
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| Protestant |
33%
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| Muslim |
16%
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| Traditional beliefs |
15%
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| Other |
3%
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| Official Language: | English | |
Bible Society Data:
| Beginning of organised work: | 1877 | |
| Date of formation of Bible Society: | 1966 | |
| Date of Full Membership in UBS: | 1988 | |
| Scripture distribution in 2005: | |||||
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Bibles
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New
Testaments |
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| 118,630 | 33,956 | 60,470 | 301,200 | 0 | 0 |
God’s Word for all in Uganda (May 2007)
Day of Prayer inspires outreach to needy people (May 2007)
HIV/AIDS Focus:
Donors respond positively to plea to protect young people (March 2005)
‘Mia baibuli!’: refugees in war-torn Uganda cry out for Bibles (March 2005)
Luganda speakers celebrate end of long wait for revised Bible (Jan./Feb. 2004)
Uganda Focus:
Facing the challenges of Bible work in Uganda
(November 2003)
BSU and IBS help ‘meet the spiritual
needs of people together’ (November 2003)
‘How God put me in my place’: Eunice
Gudoi’s story (November 2003)
Full Gospel pastor focuses on Bible (November
2003)
Uganda focus:
Bringing the Scriptures
to blind schoolchildren (September 2003)
How an ‘unsuitable
heir’ found his place in the world (September 2003)
Psalm ‘revolutionised’
blind man’s life (September 2003)
Overcoming setbacks
to launch the Dhopadhola New Testament (July/August 2003)
Ugandan children treasure New Reader Scriptures
(June 2003)
From witchcraft to Bible distribution
(June 2003)
Uganda focus:
Bible at heart of change
in ‘Pearl of Africa’ (March 2003)
Cultivating a Bible-reading
culture among Roman Catholics (March 2003)
Catholic priest has ‘fallen
in love’ with the Bible (March 2003)
‘I promote the Bible
because it changed me’ (March 2003)
Literacy project helps Ugandans
engage with God’s Word (March 2003)
(Dec. 2002/Jan. 2003)
Society distributes to prisons and produces first literature in Kupsapiny language (July/August 2002)
Scriptures looted after Bible Society pick-up crash (October 2001)
Bright Hope for Tomorrow – Special Report #24 (November 2000)
Bible Society ... Publish Special Selection in Wake of Mass Killing (June 2000)
Reaching People with Reading Difficulties (April/May 2000)
Bible People in the News (January 2000)
Bible News in Brief (December 1999)
Children Of New Hope (December 1999)
New Testament That ‘Speaks to the Heart’ (October 1999)
New Scripture for former Anti-Christian People (June 1999)
Blind Boy Teaches Fellow Pupils to Read (March 1999)
Quiet Obedience (March 1999)
Heart and Soul for Music (March 1999)
Wars and Rumours of War (March 1999)
A Full and Ready Smile (February 1999)
Bible News in Brief (January 1999)
Efforts Increase to Supply Scriptures to the Blind (September 1998)
New Testament Brings a New Responsibility (July/August 1997)
