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How God brings comfort to different people in different ways

The 28th of June was off to a bad start. I was at work at the Bible Society bookshop in downtown Beirut, and I was feeling down. I didn’t want to be at work that day, because I felt I needed to be with my friend who had lost a…...

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The Bible, from one generation to the next

One time, a young lady in her twenties entered the Bible Society showroom in Bauchrieh looking for a Bible in Arabic. She started looking through the Bibles thoroughly, opening them one by one and examining them. By turn, she would put the Bibles back, seemingly having not found what she…...

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Bible stories teaching sisters how to read and write

The formal education of many of the refugee children took a halt when they came to Lebanon. They were not enrolled in any education system until it was clear that their situation was not going to change for some time. Then NGOs and churches started to address the situation. Darine…...

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Graduating “Book of Life” cohort level 1 – Virgin Mary Brotherhood

On 8 December 2019, during the Sunday Service at St. John Parish in Achkout and in the presence of the parish priest Fr. Salim Sfeir, a group of 19 individuals received their certificates and gifts of graduation from the Bible Society program, “Book of Life” level 1. The Virgin Mary…...

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The Magi Initiative: East ⇆ West

 The Bible Society in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, and the British and Foreign Bible Society, in collaboration with the Middle East Council of Churches hosted a dialogue conference among Church leaders entitled “The Magi Initiative: East ⇆ West” from 10to 12 October 2019 at Bethania, Harissa, under the theme:…...

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Bible Society launches Jil Il Injil to Catholic Schools.

A group of catechism teachers alongside Fr. Boutros Azar, General Secretary of Catholic Schools in Lebanon, Father Joseph Soueid and Bible Society staff gathered on October 4, 2019 for the launching of the illustrated Jil Il Injil gospels book at the Bible Society center. The event started with an opening…...

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New Release – Jil El Injil Illustrated Gospels

  On 22 August 2019 the Bible Society Lebanon in partnership with Jil El Injil published a new book, The Jil El Injil illustrated Gospels. Jil El Injil, which translates to “The Generation of the Gospel”, started as a TV program that quizzed people on the Bible and the history…...

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Training on Children Trauma Healing and Children’s Healing Hearts Camp

Bible Society Lebanon organized and hosted two simultaneous trainings on Children Trauma Healing and children camps from 26 June until 5 July 2019, due to the extensive demand to assist and help children between the ages of 8 and 13 who have passed through traumatizing events, especially refugees. The Bible…...

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Supporting the bible cause 2019

The Bible Society – Lebanon held its annual private dinner on 7 May 2019, at Le Maillon restaurant in Ashrafieh which hosted 130 persons from church representatives, clergy, businesspeople, professionals, politicians, and friends of the Bible Society. This occasion allows the Supporters to get acquainted with the year’s accomplishments, challenges…...

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Catholic Schools Online Bible Competition 2019

On 9 and 11 April 2019 the Bible Society held the finals for the annual ONLINE BIBLE COMPETITION FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS (see related story) at the General Secretariat of Catholic Schools in Ain Najem, Lebanon. There were three groups competing for the finals, each with two teams from different schools competing against…...

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Commitment in the midst of the storm (literally) – Elie Tawk

We had been going back and forth all day, trying to decide whether we should cancel the evening event or not. The weather was terrible. All over Facebook and the news, we could see reports of floods and erosions that the Norma storm was causing all over Lebanon last January.…...

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Book of Life – First graduation ceremony

On 8 January 2019, the Bible Society held its first graduation ceremony for the Book of Life program. What started at the beginning of the year 2018 with a small group of eight grew to hold 40 individuals of whom 17 graduated. The conditions for graduation is to attend a…...

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Honorary ceremony for the Online Catholic Schools competition winners

On Sunday, November 11, 2018, more than 100 students attended an honorary ceremony in Bkerke for winning in the online school competition organized in partnership between the Bible Society and the General Secretariat of Catholic Schools. His Beatitude Mar Bishara Boutros Al-Ra’i the Chairman of the Council of Catholic Patriarchs…...

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