The representative committee of the Vietnam Evangelical Church (ECVN) (South) in Lam Dong province solemnly held on August 17 a thanksgiving ceremony for the completed translation of the Bible into the language of the K’Ho ethnic group.
The event saw the participation of Pastor Deputy General Secretary of the ECVN Nguyễn Ngọc Thuận, Pastor Member of the ECVN’s Executive Committee in charge of pastoral affairs in Lam Dong Kon Să Ha Hăck, Pastor Chairman of the ECVN’s representative committee in the province Bùi Phụng, Chairman of the provincial committee for religious affairs Ngô Văn Đức, and over 600 Protestant dignitaries, deacons and followers belonging to the K’Ho ethnic community in the province.
K’Ho Protestants attend the mass
As reported at the event, Protestantism was brought into K’Ho ethnic community in 1929. The translation work of some parts of the bible in the native language was started as early as in 1934, and the translation of both the Old Testament and New Testament by K’Ho Protestants, foreign clergies and later the Bible Alliance Association was basically completed in 2009. For the last ten years the translation group has collaborated with local pastors to double-check the translating work for improving and completing the translation.
The Protestant church is planning to make 10,000 printing copies of the completed K’Ho language Bible for meeting demands of the ECVN and other Protestant denominations in Vietnam.
Presenting a copy of K’Ho language Bible to the provincial religious committee
Lam Dong province is currently home to 146,000 K’Ho residents out of 166,000 K’Ho people in Vietnam, accounting for 12.3% of the population in the province and 87.7 % of the total number of K’Ho ethnic group in the country. Most of K’Ho ethnic community in the province practice Protestantism and Catholicism.
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