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Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone
2/12/2012

Hugh Pickens writes "Alan Jacobs writes in the indian ocean about Every Tribe Every Nation, an establishment whose mission is to produce and disseminate Bibles in readable mobile-ready texts for hundreds of languages including Norsk, Potawatomie, Bahasa Indonesia, and Hawai'i Pidgin as the old missionary impulse is being turned towards some extremely tough llc.view results from: 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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share this: challenges. The Bible is a large, labyrinthine text containing three quarters of a million words and the typesetting is quite complex because of the wide range of story types found in scripture and the need for several types of note. 'For all the issues that are still to be solved, ETEN is trying to do things that the world's biggest tech companies haven't cracked yet, such as archetype minority languages correctly on mobile devices,' says Mark Howe. 'There's a unity among Bible translators and publishers that stands in stark counterpoint




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