Do they know it’s Christmas?

Wycliffe Bible Translators  |  World
Date posted:  1 Dec 2019
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Do they know it’s Christmas?

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In October Wycliffe Bible Translators released its annual figures on the progress being made in Bible translation worldwide.

698 languages now have the complete Bible (up from 683 in 2018), and 1,548 languages have a complete New Testament (up from 1,534). A further 1,138 have some translated portions of the Bible (up from 1,133).

Encouragingly, there is also active translation or preparatory work going on in 2,617 languages in 161 countries. Wycliffe and its partner organisation SIL are involved in about three-quarters of this work. Since 1996, the number of languages in which there is a complete Bible has doubled.

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