Source: United Bible Societies, April 2017<\/p>\n
In Armenia, the day before an election is called \u201cthe day of silence\u201d because political parties are no longer allowed to campaign. This year\u2019s day of silence took place on April 1\u2014the same day that Armenia\u2019s Deaf community celebrated the launch of the first Scriptures in their mother tongue, Armenian Sign Language.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe silence is broken!\u201d said the Bible Society in Armenia\u2019s Project Director Arshavir Kapoudjian of the joyful and colorful event, attended by many Deaf people, their families, and church representatives.<\/p>\n
Bible Society General Secretary Yeznik Petroysan encouraged the Deaf community to spread the Word of God.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we began to understand, things flowed easily and we became more and more aware that we can\u2019t just keep the divine Word to ourselves\u2014we must share it with everyone\u2026 God entrusted his Word to be shared through chosen people, such as prophets, apostles, Church fathers. Today, you have the translation of the first part of the Holy Bible in your language. God has chosen you to spread his Word to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00bb See full story<\/a> with lots of pictures. Looks like quite the celebration!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: United Bible Societies, April 2017 In Armenia, the day before an election is called \u201cthe day of silence\u201d because political parties are no longer allowed to campaign. This year\u2019s day of silence took place on April 1\u2014the same day that Armenia\u2019s Deaf community celebrated the launch of the first Scriptures in their mother tongue, … Continue reading ARMENIA: First Scriptures in Armenian Sign Language<\/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-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","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=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}