Source: United Bible Societies, April 18, 2016<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have the whole Bible in San is for us a victory over the Enemy and over obscurantism. More and more Samo people (who speak San) are learning to read, and now they will be able to read God\u2019s Word in their own language.\u201d<\/p>\n
These are the words of Thomas Traor\u00e9, President of the Eglise de l\u2019Alliance Chr\u00e9tienne (Church of the Christian Alliance) of Burkina Faso, at the publication of the first Bible in San\u2014a language spoken by more than 230,000 people. The new Bible was dedicated in February, in Toma, Nayala Province, and was welcomed with great joy by the Christian community with prayers, singing, and dancing.<\/p>\n
Work on translating the New Testament was started in 1982 by American missionary Richard Phillips and was later continued by the Bible Society and SIL. The New Testament was published in 1996, and work on the Old Testament began two years later.<\/p>\n
\u201cGod speaks San and wants to talk to you in your language, so put your new Bible to good use,\u201d [General Secretary of the Bible Society of Burkina Faso] Mr. Dramane Yankin\u00e9 told the gathering of Samo Christians, urging them to use it as a tool to build their faith and to improve their literacy skills.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe translation of the Word of God is in accord with the Spirit of Pentecost, when the apostles spoke in the mother tongues of the people around them,\u201d he noted. \u201cThere is no sacred language in which God communicates; God speaks to each person in his or her language in order to be understood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00bb See full story<\/a> with pictures.<\/p>\n \u00bb You might also enjoy reading about encouraging developments with access to the Bible in the West Africa\u2019s Wolof language<\/a> (SIM). On the other hand, please pray for Christians in Uzbekistan<\/a> recently imprisoned and tortured, apparently for illegal possession of Christian literature (Forum 18 News Service).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: United Bible Societies, April 18, 2016 \u201cTo have the whole Bible in San is for us a victory over the Enemy and over obscurantism. More and more Samo people (who speak San) are learning to read, and now they will be able to read God\u2019s Word in their own language.\u201d These are the words … Continue reading BURKINA FASO: Celebrating the San Bible<\/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-6381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381","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=6381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6382,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381\/revisions\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}