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Royal Patron for Bible Society

King Charles has agreed to become Bible Society’s Patron. The Society has had a Royal patron since 1943, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth became joint patrons. Now we have a new one.

What happens when a migrant worker receives the Bible?

God is at work in the Gulf, where your donations put the Bible in the hands of hard-pressed migrant workers. These are the people who build the skyscrapers in cities like Dubai and work in the homes of the super-rich. They...

Will you pray for the Bible Lands?

Bible Society teams serving all communities in the Bible Lands have been working together through the war to share Jesus. Supporters here at home, passionate about outreach, responded with extraordinary generosity to ensure...

The Big Church Poetry Slam

Rebecca Rocker from Swindon beat 16 other spoken word artists, to win The Big Church Poetry Slam 2024. Her three incredible spoken word pieces were based on characters, stories and themes from the Bible, as well as a direct...

‘I came broken to Bahrain, but God made me whole’

Desperately poor women arrive in the Gulf from the Indian subcontinent in the hope of finding a job as a housemaid. Thanks to you, many of them are also finding Jesus. Read Kanti’s story.

Sharing Bible stories with children as bombs rain down

For more than two years now, our colleagues at Ukrainian Bible Society such as Anatoliy have been risking their lives taking aid, medicine and the Scriptures to people across the country, and increasingly to areas of fighting...

New Bible gets green light from Chinese authorities

The Chinese authorities have given the go-ahead for the printing of Bible Society’s translation of the whole Bible into the Inner Mongolian minority language. The approval this year caps an amazing project that has taken...

Caring for creation in Costa Rica

In Costa Rica, Bible Society is working with churches to encourage better environmental stewardship and help preserve the country’s rich biodiversity.

Children with special needs love to Open the Book

Alfredo and Irene Salazar’s child was an outcast in society. Alfredo Jr has Down’s syndrome and wasn’t made to feel welcome, even at the local church. But the couple, who live in one of the poorest regions of Guatemala...

Pray for peace

Join us in prayer for peace and for Bible mission around the world. Bible Society leaders in four countries deeply affected by conflict share their prayers. ‘God, use your people in these countries to be peacemakers.’

Resisting gang culture with God’s word

The journalist Catherine Pepinster went to Guatemala to see the impact of your support for Bible mission as children embrace an alternative to the gang culture around them.

A 100-year Bible dream comes true in China

We visited the East Lisu minority community in China to see how they are getting on with the Bible that, thanks to Bible Society supporters, was translated into their dialect for the first time.
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