Bible Society in Northern Ireland

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BSNI: Impacting the World

Brazil...by working to achieve the most effective translation, publication, and distribution of the Bible in all the languages spoken today.   

The Bible Society in Northern Ireland is currently supporting 30 Scripture projects abroad. These projects include working on the translation of the Bible into different languages; distributing God’s Word to people in churches, schools, hospitals and prisons; providing holistic support to people, encouraging them through the comfort found in the Scriptures; giving the Bible to people in a format that they understand, whether written, audio or visual; promoting Bible Literacy through literacy classes, audio Bibles, listening groups and Braille Bibles.

BSNI is supporting projects in the following countries:

Albania Bangladesh Brazil Bulgaria Cambodia China Cote d’Ivoire Gabon Haiti India Indonesia Iraq Jordon Kazakhstan Lithuania Mali Mexico Nicaragua Palestine Poland Portugal Republic of Belarus Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Ukraine Zimbabwe

Current Projects

  • Braille in Mali & Ghana

    Braille in MaliMore than 800 million people, in the world today, are blind or so badly visually impaired that they cannot read the Bible.

    2009 marks the 200th birthday of Louis Braille; a man whose life was devoted t

  • Christianity Explored in Uganda

    CE GroupKiwoko Hospital is a community based hospital in Luwero district, Uganda which aims to glorify Jesus and impart a definite Christian witness to the area.
    In January this year, a conference was held in the groun

  • Translation in Cote d'Ivoire

    Margaret BohoussouBased in Abidjan, the Bible Society in Côte d’Ivoire began ministry as far back as 1903. Of great importance is the focus on translation work, as there are currently only 2 languages out of 60 that have Bibles. Only recentl

  • India: Standing Firm

    Holy Cow:India‘...a country of justice, equality and liberty, where people have the freedom to worship and the right to pursue any religious belief.’
    This is what the founding Fathers of the Indian Constitution believed in when it was written in the t

  • Indonesia

    Translation work in Indonesia

    Imagine attending church and having to listen to the Scripture Reading in a language that wasn’t your own.

    This is a reality for many people living in the North Sulawesi province of

  • Child of Bethlehem

    Child of Bethlehem

    ‘O little Town of Bethlehem’, written in 1868 by Rector Phillips Brooks from Philadelphia, is a well known and loved Christmas Carol. One night as Phillips stood on the hills o