{"id":261,"date":"2010-08-03T16:02:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2010\/08\/03\/deaf-in-russia-to-get-their-own-bible-2\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:32","slug":"deaf-in-russia-to-get-their-own-bible-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/deaf-in-russia-to-get-their-own-bible-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaf in Russia to get their own Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">ST. PETERSBURG, Russia\u2014More than 3,000 deaf people from all corners of the country attended a special meeting earlier this month and learned that for the first time a complete translation of the Bible will be available in Russian Sign Language. Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses announced that they have been working on the project for some time, and at the meeting, the recently completed translation of the Gospels of Matthew and John were released. All in attendance received, free of charge, three new DVDs containing video recordings of those two Gospels. The event held on July 16, 2010, marked a milestone in the cultural and religious life of deaf and hard of hearing people in Russia.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Translation into sign language is both difficult and unique. It is a translation not merely of words but of thoughts, and it therefore allows events and emotions to be more deeply understood and felt. The attendees were deeply moved when an excerpt of the Gospel of John, relating the account of Lazarus\u2019 resurrection, was played during the presentation.<\/div>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Of the 2,200 congregations and isolated groups of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Russia, 137 consist solely of deaf persons. Worldwide, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses have translated religious literature\u2014including the Bible\u2014not only into Russian Sign Language but also into 42 other sign languages.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.jw-media.org\/rus\/20100802.htm<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Russia\u2014More than 3,000 deaf people from all corners of the country attended a special meeting earlier this month and learned that for the first time a complete translation of the Bible will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}