UBS World Report 379
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Asia-Pacific

Society works on outreach as school leavers go on the binge (Australia)
Making the Scriptures more accessible for Maori speakers (New Zealand)
Bike for Bibles hits the road in India
Special Bibles for needy families in the Philippines
Putting prayer into action (Philippines)

Americas

Opportunity 21 touches lives behind prison walls (Argentina)
Hardworking women reach out with the Scriptures (Argentina)
Bringing the Scriptures to the Dogrib community (Canada)

Europe-Middle East

Russian children delighted with first ever Braille Scriptures
Year of the Bible goes into top gear (France, Germany)
Pere Roquet: a banker who is paying something back (Andorra)
Churches work together to bring the Bible to Armenia’s schools
‘All because of God’s extraordinary power’ (England)

Africa

Uganda focus:
    Bringing the Scriptures to blind schoolchildren
    How an ‘unsuitable heir’ found his place in the world
    Psalm ‘revolutionised’ blind man’s life

Athletes and sports fans to receive Scriptures at Indian Ocean Games (Mauritius)
Strength, discipline, sacrifice (Mauritius)

World

MegaVoice trials yield valuable feedback
UBS looks at ways to head off computer script problems
UBS Handbook series: an essential tool for Bible translators

Latest News

Summaries of stories which have been e-mailed in the Latest News series since the last World Report: (Bangladesh, Singapore, Philippines, Pakistan, New Zealand, Australia, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Ghana, USA)

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Editor: Andrew Mathewson
Photo Editor: Julie Morris
Writer: Andrea Rhodes
Writer: Mary Frank
French Translator: Claire Bedot

Operations Manager: Joan Prebble
Electronic Communications Manager: Julian Phillips
Communications Secretary: Coral Lazenbury
Fundraising Communications Officer: Mark Cook
Spanish Translation: by Athalla Jaramillo

Views expressed by the authors are not necessarily those of the United Bible Societies.
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