Children's Bible Now in Assamese

ROME, OCT. 1, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A children’s Bible entitled “God Speaks to His Children” has been published in Assamese, the native language of 15 million Indians in the northeastern states of Assam and Meghalaya.

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The children’s Bible is a project of Aid to the Church in Need, the Germany-based Catholic group of pontifical right.

The 6,000 copies of the first edition will be distributed among Assamese-speaking Catholics.

By year-end, the children’s Bible is expected to have been translated into 141 languages. More than 40 million copies have been distributed in 115 countries.

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