UBS World Report 388
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Americas

Complete Bible brings benefits for Mbyá Guaraní community (Brazil)
Literate but book-less: Society aims to tackle nationwide lack of reading material (Brazil)

PERU focus:
   Pan de Vida: the meal with a message
   ‘Eternal Rock’: makeshift church with a firm foundation
   Family breadwinner
   Building bridges to the whole family
   Faces from Puentes de Vida
   ‘Emerald of the Andes’: a church where the poor lead the poor
   Noelia: Maybe I could have saved my sister’s life

ABS magazine targets at-risk youth (USA)

Africa

Photo caption story (Côte d'Ivoire)
‘Faith really does come by hearing!’ (Côte d’Ivoire/Ghana)
Healing without cost: Meegmege’s story (Ghana)
FCBH to start in Swaziland prisons
New Testament is ‘something special and precious’ for Ethiopia’s Gumuz people
‘This machine is giving sight to the blind and insight to the illiterate’ (Eritrea)
Bible Society facility gives Brazzaville’s blind people new opportunities (Congo)

Asia-Pacific

Prisoner’s testimony demonstrates God’s love to others (Thailand)
Guy’s great idea: a child’s story (New Zealand)
God’s Word is ‘the most important canoe’ for islanders (Solomon Islands)
Many more homes still to be lit up in the Philippines

Europe-Middle East

‘I was more dead than alive’ (Ukraine)
Judo star, philosopher, master forger, evangelist: one man’s journey to faith (Ukraine)
‘The Communists were the first to ask for Bibles’:
Roman Vovk describes remarkable developments in Ukraine

Seminar brings churches together (Kuwait)
Hungarian Bible Society supports churches’ ministry to Romani groups
Sculpture … mathematics … recipes: Austrian children explore the riches of the Bible

Latest News

Summaries of stories which have been e-mailed in the Latest News series since the last World Report:
Hungary, Tanzania, Guadeloupe

World Watch: Greece

Coming soon...
Articles about the diverse ministries of Bible Societies related to HIV/AIDS

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