Romani women are strong; they’re not afraid of anything

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Chilean Romani holding a Bible study meeting.

An interview by Javier García, Information Officer of the Chilean Bible Society, with Papusa, who is a Romani and a member of the Presbyterian Church

How did your faith begin? How did you come to know Jesus? I went to one of

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Humble acceptance of forgiveness in Santiago jail

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Photo : Men on their knees in prayer at the meeting in Colina's prison earlier this month. Among them (far left, dressed in black) is a prison guard. The meeting was led by Chilean Bible Society volunteers.

At the beginning of this month Messengers in Action, the volunteer group

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We take the hope and love of Christ into prison

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Photo (CHI10DJ-33): Women in the maternity unit of the Santiago women’s prison listening to a talk from a Bible Society visitor.

For several years the Chilean Bible Society has been paying monthly visits to prisons. One of the places that we go to most often is the maternity unit

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Bible Society presents New Testaments to miners’ families

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( 02-09-2010 by Andrew Mathewson – Javier Garcia) The families of the 33 miners trapped underground at the San José mine in northern Chile have been presented with personalised copies of the New Testament by the Chilean Bible Society.

Francisco Viguera, the General Secretary of the Chilean Bible Society,

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Chilean Bible Society gives its last Bible for the Pope

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Picture: President Piñera and his wife meeting Pope Benedict XVI in Rome earlier this month

A member of the upper house of Chile’s National Congress had a hard time finding a copy of the Bible in the language of the Mapuche people to take as a present for the

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