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Bible News Roundup – Week of October 11, 2015

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Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says
The New York Times
Read the King James Version of the Bible on Bible Gateway

Religious or Not, Many Americans See a Creator’s Hand
RNS
Read Genesis 1 on Bible Gateway

Texas Sheriff Department Puts Bible Verse on Patrol Vehicle
Texomashomepage.com
Read John 10:11 on Bible Gateway

In compromise, University of Florida Will Add Secular Quotes to Bible Verse on Building
The Gainesville Sun
Read Micah 6:8 on Bible Gateway

Vladimir Putin Proposes Law to Exempt Bible, Koran from Extremism Law
RT

Archaeologists Think They’ve Discovered the Lost City of Sodom in Jordan
World Religion News
Read about Sodom in the Dictionary of Bible Themes on Bible Gateway

Worthy Publishing Gets Partnership with Bible Museum
The Tennessean

Scroll Confiscated by the Nazis and World’s Smallest Bible on Show in England
Yorkshire Evening Post

Founder President of Bibles for the World, Rev. Rochunga, Dies
The Shillong Times
In Memoriam: Dr. Rochunga Pudaite, Founder and CEO of Bibles For The World [NRB]

In Shadow of Death, Nigerians Rely on Bible, Prayer
Mennonite World Review

Afghan Refugee Clings to Bible, Dreams of University
Deutsche Welle
See Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity in the Bible Gateway Store

The Value in Teaching the Bible in Prison
The Atlantic

Three First Nations Groups in Canada Take A Step Closer to Reading Scripture in Their Own Languages
Faith Today

After 25 Years, Bible Translation into Mayan Language Completed
Breitbart
Read the Bible in multiple languages on Bible Gateway

Rachelle Telsworth Loses Dream of Working Abroad for Wycliffe Bible Translators, But She Doesn’t Lose Her Faith
The Elkhart Truth

Bank of Hungary Gold Coins Commemorate 425th Anniversary of First Translation of the Bible into Hungarian
COINWeek

Hungarian Catholics Make 5-Volume Bible Manuscript For Pope Francis
Hungary Today

Why Christians Don’t Read the Bible
in All things

Complexity in Publishing 4-volume Bibliotheca Causes Delays
The Christian Post
Read A Bible Designed for Beautiful Reading: An Interview with Adam Lewis Greene

Typography, Calligraphy, & Illustration Inspired by the Bible is on Display at Yale’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
Yale News
See links to Bible exhibits

Embracing the (R-Rated) Bible
TCW
3 Lies We Believe About the Bible (TCW)

American Bible Society Shows Off New Headquarters
Philadelphia Business Journal

Washington, DC, Area Churches Unite for Second Washington Prayer Gathering
News release

Christianity “On Course to Disappear” from Parts of the Middle East
Premier

World Remembers Christian and British Nurse Edith Cavell 100 Years On
Premier
See her biography, Edith Cavell: Faith Before the Firing Squad, in the Bible Gateway Store

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