Jehovah’s Witnesses

For Immediate Release
July 3, 2009
(French)

Bible translation now available in Lingala

KINSHASA, Congo—A modern, easy-to-read translation of the Bible will soon be widely available in Lingala, a common language of Congo Kinshasa.

On July 3, 2009, David H. Splane, a visiting member of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses, released the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures in the Lingala language. A crowd of 50,000 at the annual convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses greeted the news with enthusiasm and sustained applause.

Jehovah’s Witnesses use the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society to oversee the printing of the literature they use in their Bible educational work. In addition to more than 150 million copies of the New World Translation, the Watch Tower Society has printed on its own presses or has commissioned the printing of the following Bible translations: the American Standard Version, The Bible in Living English, The Emphatic Diaglott, Holman’s Linear Parallel Edition, the King James Version, and The New Testament Newly Translated and Critically Emphasized, Second Edition. The New World Translation itself has been printed in whole or in part in almost 80 languages.

The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society has been publishing Bibles since 1926.

U. S. Contact: J. R. Brown, telephone: (718) 560-5600
Kinshasa Contact: B. Bandiwila +243-81-555-1000