Source: Wycliffe Bible Translators, April 25, 2018<\/p>\n
The people of South Sudan have rarely known peace. The decades since Sudan\u2019s independence from Britain and then South Sudan\u2019s independence from Sudan have been marked by turmoil and war.<\/p>\n
Despite the turbulence, Bible translation has been taking place. The Baka translation began in 1980 in southern Sudan. The team endured civil war, violence, having to flee as refugees, and a kidnapping. Through it all, translation continued, and in March 2017, the Baka community celebrated the launch of the New Testament.<\/p>\n
Now that the Baka have God\u2019s Word, \u201cGod is not a foreigner anymore. Jesus is one of us. He can talk [our] dialect,\u201d says Pastor Bennett Marona, the translation project manager.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a> or watch a video<\/a> about the Baka translation.<\/p>\n \u00bb See also The Bible in Uzbek<\/a>, the story of the 22-year process of completing the translation of the Bible into this Central Asian language. In a surprising turn, it was publically launched in the capital with official approval by the country\u2019s government (United Bible Societies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Wycliffe Bible Translators, April 25, 2018 The people of South Sudan have rarely known peace. The decades since Sudan\u2019s independence from Britain and then South Sudan\u2019s independence from Sudan have been marked by turmoil and war. Despite the turbulence, Bible translation has been taking place. The Baka translation began in 1980 in southern Sudan. … Continue reading SOUTH SUDAN: \u201cGod Is Not a Foreigner Anymore\u201d<\/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-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","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=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7869,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}