The Bible Society of Uganda

All Bible Societies in the world can trace their history back to a young teenage girl called Mary Jones.
She was a Welsh Protestant Christian girl born in 1784.Mary at age fifteen, walked twenty-five miles across the countryside to buy a copy of the Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles because she did not have one.
Charles then used her story in proposing to the Religious Tract Society to set up a new organization to supply Wales with Bibles….Click here to read full Mary Jones Story Click to watch a Mary Jones Video

The Bible Society of Uganda was established in Uganda in 1968 but before that, the work had already been started by the British Foreign Bible Societies.

Since then, the following languages have been translated out of the 50 languages spoken in Uganda: Luganda, Runyankole-Rukiga, Runyoro-Rutoro, Ng’akarimojong, Alur, Acholi, Kinandi, Ateso, Kakwa, Kinyarwanda, Lango, Lugbara, Kumam, Lusoga, Lumasaba, Kumam, Dhopadhola, Lusamya -Lugwe. Some of these are still ongoing.

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