Source: Evangelical Focus, July 19, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The distribution of Bibles slightly increased worldwide in 2021, the United Bible Societies recently reported in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to their data, around 32.6 million complete Bible editions were distributed last year, \u201cafter the pandemic-related slump in Bible distribution in the previous year,\u201d the situation has stabilized again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Compared to the previous year (30.9 million copies), this was an increase of 5.5% in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, around 20% of all full Bibles distributed were downloaded from the internet, so that the share of digital Bibles is lower than in the first \u201ccorona year\u201d 2020, but is 15% higher than in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the report, the distribution of digital editions \u201cis playing an increasingly important role, especially in crisis regions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You might also be interested in a video-based story about the creation of a New Testament for the Yupik people of St. Lawrence Island in Alaska<\/a> (Wycliffe Bible Translators; about seven minutes long).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Evangelical Focus, July 19, 2021 The distribution of Bibles slightly increased worldwide in 2021, the United Bible Societies recently reported in a press release. According to their data, around 32.6 million complete Bible editions were distributed last year, \u201cafter the pandemic-related slump in Bible distribution in the previous year,\u201d the situation has stabilized again. … Continue reading World: More Than 32 Million Bibles Distributed in 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11263,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262\/revisions\/11263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}