A week-long attempt to reconcile warring elements in the Central African Republic began in early May, in Bangui, the capital.
The 600 delegates have agreed to release between 6,000 and 10,000 child soldiers and to stop underage recruitment. The vice-president of the Evangelical Alliance in Central Africa said that the church had spared no effort to prevent the warring parties from creating a complete sectarian conflict.
China: Bible industry
Bible Society’s Newswatch (The Daily Telegraph)
Amity Printing press, based in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, is the world’s largest printer of Bibles, it was reported in late April.
Qiu Zhonghui, president of the company said: ‘In 2012 we celebrated production of the 100 millionth copy. It took 20 years to print the first 50 million copies, but the second 50 million took just five years.’
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