Holy Bible Society News

LifeWay Publishes First-of-its-Kind Chinese Bible
Posted January 30, 2009
LifeWay Christian Resources, one of the world’s largest providers of Christian products and services, recently printed a modern translation of the New Testament in Chinese. It is reported to be the first time Scripture was directly translated from the original Greek version to Chinese.

Gideons Celebrate 100 Years of Bible Distribution
Posted January 2, 2009
Gideons International is celebrating its 100th anniversary dispensing Bibles and has begun efforts to hand out more Scriptures in the United States to boost a distribution rate that's remained relatively flat in recent years.

Native Language Bible To Be Distributed To 3 Million Africans
Posted December 31, 2008
Three million people in the highlands of the east African country of Tanzania will receive scriptures in their own language for the first time by fall next year, a Bible translation ministry recently announced.

American Bible Society will Present Incoming President Obama with Bible
Posted December 18, 2008
The American Bible Society will make history in January during the presidential inauguration when President-elect Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States is presented with a Bible from the historic organization that dates back more than 200 years. The presentation by ABS will be the first time this event has occurred in U.S. history.

Christians Encouraged to Re-Gift Bibles This Christmas
Posted December 16, 2008
This Christmas, Christian Resources International (CRI), a ministry that sends Bibles to needy Christians overseas, is calling on American Christians to "re-gift" new and used Bibles from under their Christmas trees or from their bookshelves and send them overseas.

Bible-translation project gets $50 million donation
Posted November 23, 2008
A new effort to translate the Bible into every living language kicked off Saturday with the help of a $50 million anonymous gift to the Orlando-based Wycliffe USA, the world's largest Bible-translation company.

Best-Selling ESV Study Bible Coming Soon to iPhone
Posted November 17, 2008
The ESV Study Bible, which debuted last month to stellar sales, is going digital. Crossway Books & Bibles is planning to make the 2,750-page Bible resource available on popular digital platforms like the iPhone and Blackberry. The digitalized study Bible will also be accessible through Mac, PC, Windows Mobile, Palm, Google Android, and Symbian.

Zondervan Acquires BibleGateway.com
Posted October 28, 2008
Zondervan, a world leader in Christian communications, has acquired BibleGateway.com, the leading online tool for reading and researching scripture, from Gospel Communications, Inc.

Audio Bible Wins 'Christian Book of the Year' Award
Posted July 16, 2008
For the first time in the 30-year history of the Christian Book Awards, a Bible and an audio product has won the highest honor. On Sunday, during the International Christian Retail Show (ICRS) in Orlando, Fla., the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) announced the six category winners of the annual awards as well as the “Christian Book of the Year,” which this year went to The Word of Promise New Testament Audio Bible.

Gay Man Files $70M Suit Against Bible Publishers Over 'Homosexual' Verses
Posted July 10, 2008
A homosexual man has filed a $70 million lawsuit against Bible publishers Zondervan and Thomas Nelson, alleging that their version of the Bible that refers to homosexuality as a sin violates his constitutional rights and has caused him emotional distress.

NIV Bible Tops List by Evangelical Leaders
Posted April 11, 2008
The New International Version of the Bible is by far the most preferred translation of the Scripture, according to a new survey of U.S. evangelical leaders. More than 65 percent of the participating leaders named the NIV as their preferred Bible in a survey conducted by the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) in light of the NIV’s 30th anniversary this year.

HBS Seeking Content Partners
We are seeking content partners to work with us in develivering high quality Christian resources to our visitors. Thus far, we have been able to make agreements with a number of bible publishers and owners of several other types of biblical content, but we are always seeking more content. If you would like to help us fulfill our mission of making biblical resources available everywhere via the internet, and you are a license-owner of biblical content, please contact us. We look forward to hearing from you.