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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.

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...

Articles about the Bible

What does the Bible say about legacy?

Today, when we think about ‘legacy’ we probably think first of making sure our money and property are passed down to the next generation when we die. In Bible times, too, this was an important concern, and people’s first...

Are the gifts of the Holy Spirit for Christians today?

When the Holy Spirit made his home inside Jesus’ followers at Pentecost, on top of receiving the same power that raised Jesus from the dead, they received spiritual gifts. From that day on, they could speak in tongues, prophesy...

Did Jesus forbid divorce and remarriage?

Just over nine per cent of adults in England and Wales have been divorced; that’s according to the 2021 Census. So what does the Bible have to say about divorce, and how should we understand it? The words of Jesus in Matthew...

My Bible

Hebrews 11.1–6 has kind of shaped my life and reflected how I see the Bible and my faith. It says, “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen”. I had this as a poster on the back of... Read more

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