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"Bible House", the headquarters of the Pennsylvania Bible Society, the oldest in the United States, founded in 1808. A Bible society is a non-profit organization, usually nondenominational in makeup, devoted to translating, publishing, and distributing the Bible at affordable prices.
The Geneva Bible Society is independent of all political and religious organizations. From 1998 to 2006, it printed 115,000 Bibles per year, and 800,000 per year from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, 35 percent of the total project expenditure of 650,000 Swiss francs was used for Bible projects, 17 percent to support Christian bookshops and 15 percent ...
BFBS was not the first Bible Society in the world. The first organisation in Britain to be called "The Bible Society" was founded in 1779: it still exists and is called the Naval & Military Bible Society. [3] The first BFBS translation project was the Gospel of John into Mohawk for Canada in 1804. [4]
The United Bible Societies (UBS) is a global fellowship of around 150 Bible societies operating in more than 240 countries and territories. It has working hubs in England, Singapore and Nairobi. It has working hubs in England, Singapore and Nairobi.
In October 2012, the Bible Society's "25 words campaign" encouraged Australian Christians to commit to reading just one verse (or 25 words) from the Bible a day, for 31 days. [49] The Bible Society also creates resources to help all ages engage with the Bible. The Wild Bible is a project that offers 34 free Bible animations for children. [50]
Biblica was founded December 4, 1809, in New York City as the New York Bible Society by a small group including Henry Rutgers, William Colgate, Theodorus Van Wyke and Thomas Eddy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Biblica experienced its first merger in 1819 when it merged with the New York Auxiliary Bible Society .
The Bible League of Canada; Bible Society Australia; Bible Society for the Netherlands and Flanders; Bible Society in Russia; Bible Society New Zealand; Bible Society NSW; Bible Society of Ghana; Bible Society of India; Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary; Bible Society of India Telangana Auxiliary; Bible Society of Nigeria ...
American Bible Society launched a new Bible Search tool, an ad-free web engine that searches across ten translations of the Bible and targets the "Bible curious" and Protestant, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox believers. Also in 2010, American Bible Society launched the Bible-based Trauma Healing ministry in a war zone in East Africa.