The
United Bible Societies (
UBS) is a worldwide association of
bible societiesA Bible society is a non-profit organization devoted to translating, publishing, distributing the Bible at affordable costs and advocating its credibility and trustworthiness in contemporary cultural life...
. In 1946 in
Haywards HeathHaywards Heath is a town in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, north of Brighton, south of Gatwick Airport and east northeast of the county town of Chichester. Nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the southwest, Horsham to the northwest, Crawley north...
(England) as an effort to coordinate the activities of the bible societies, delegates from 13 countries formed the UBS, with headquarters in London and in Geneva.
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The
United Bible Societies (
UBS) is a worldwide association of
bible societiesA Bible society is a non-profit organization devoted to translating, publishing, distributing the Bible at affordable costs and advocating its credibility and trustworthiness in contemporary cultural life...
. In 1946 in
Haywards HeathHaywards Heath is a town in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, north of Brighton, south of Gatwick Airport and east northeast of the county town of Chichester. Nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the southwest, Horsham to the northwest, Crawley north...
(England) as an effort to coordinate the activities of the bible societies, delegates from 13 countries formed the UBS, with headquarters in London and in Geneva.
As of January 2006 the UBS has 141 member societies, working in more than 200 countries and territories. They include:
- The British and Foreign Bible Society
The British and Foreign Bible Society, often known in England and Wales as simply as Bible Society, is a non-denominational Christian charity formed on 4 March 1804.It exists to bring the Bible's life-changing message to those who still wait for it....
(1804)
- The Pennsylvania Bible Society (1808)
- The American Bible Society
The American Bible Society is a group, founded in 1816, that publishes, distributes, and translates the Bible.In 2000-2001, ABS distributed 4,113,106 Bibles and 8,322,112 copies of the New Testament...
(1816)
- The Bible Society In Australia
The Bible Society in Australia exists to put the Bible into people's hands. They were inaugurated at the instigation of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in Sydney on March 7 1817...
(1817)
- Bible Society NSW
Bible Society NSW is an Australian Bible society, formed through an Act of the Parliament of New South Wales in 1817 and was known as the NSW auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society...
(1817)
- The Colombian Bible Society (1825)
- The Bible Society In New Zealand
Bible Society New Zealand began in 1846.The aim of the organisation is to promote the distribution of Christian Scriptures in appropriate format in New Zealand and overseas without doctrinal note and comment. They receive no Government funding...
(1846)
- The Canadian Bible Society (1904)
- The Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft
The Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft , is a non-denominational Christian charity that exists to make the Bible available throughout the world. The Society was formed on 1948...
(German Bible Society) (1948)
- Alliance Biblique Universelle
- Sociedades Biblicas Unidas
- Bible Society of South Africa
- Ukrainian Bible Society
Ukrainian Bible Society - religious non-profit organization, established by representatives of different Christian denominations in Ukraine, who recognize the Bible as the Word of God...
- Russian Bible Society
Russian Bible Society - christian non-denominational organization for translating and distributing the books of the Old Testament and New Testament and the Bible in Russia.-Early history:...
- Japanese Bible Society
- Hungarian Bible Society
- Dutch Bible Society
- Greek Bible Society