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Sisters;
Sorry to ask for info this way...but is the meeting still this Saturday at
Kaari at 7 p.m. (sorry about spelling), Do you bring a dish and can someone
send directions again. FABU
>From: Vera Crowell <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "AAM (African Association of Madison)"
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>Subject: Bible Translators Become Chicken Liberators
>Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:22:26 -0500
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>
>ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
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>Monday, October 13, 2003
>
>BIBLE TRANSLATORS BECOME CHICKEN LIBERATORS
>Enough Magazine Reveals How Modern Missionaries Bring Freedom To Ghanaian
>Tribespeople
>
>By Michael Ireland
>Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
>
>NORTHERN GHANA (ANS) -- Bible translators have empowered tribespeople in
>Ghana to understand their own constitutional rights -- which now means that
>fewer chickens are being ritually slaughtered.
>
>In the new edition of Enough Magazine Dave Pearson, of Wycliffe Bible
>Translators, explains how his charity is helping to bring many kinds of
>freedom to far-flung parts of the world.
>
>Wycliffe works with some of the millions of people in the world who speak
>rare tribal languages. In many cases, these languages have never been
>written down, with no alphabet to work from. Here Wycliffe's work, which
>ends with the production of a Bible in the language, begins from scratch,
>and the subsequent process has some unexpected and rewarding side-effects.
>
>Recently, Wycliffe translated the constitution of Ghana into 22 languages
>in the north of the country. In doing so, they brought unanticipated
>liberation.
>
>"People from the Deg tribe in northern Ghana didn't realize that they
>didn't have to pay the police to have convicts released" says Pearson, "and
>they also didn't know that it was illegal for them to be detained in the
>cells for over 48 hours without being charged."
>
>And now we get to the chickens.
>
>In another people group in northern Ghana it's obligatory for each person
>to give a chicken for sacrifice to the ancestral spirit. Pearson explains:
>"Once the constitution had been translated into their language the
>tribespeople realized that freedom of religion is their constitutional
>right and that they weren't obliged to sacrifice a chicken."
>
>The secret world of Bible translation is revealed in the November issue of
>Enough magazine, which is out now.
>
>For further information, call Martin Saunders, Premier Radio's Media
>Relations Manager on 0207 316 1463 or 07766 290 603, or email
><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
>
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