A Bíblia na minha língua! / The Bible in my language!

A True Midnight Snack after church, and let me tell you, the food was good! 

Movie night with the other volunteers and students @ ALEM. They told me we were watching "Casa Branca" which I understood to be the Humphrey Bogart Casablanca...then, I saw Gerard Butler come on the screen..very different White House :)

In the video above (in Português), my friend shares a touching story about a man from the indigenous group Kaiwá who shouted with joy at the Bible dedication ceremony: "A Bíblia na minha língua"/ "The Bible in my language!" There are 1,967 languages for which the Bible remains inaccessible(latest figure), and this number represents 340 million people. John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English by 1384, and portions in the English language can be traced back as early as the 7th century (http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/). We have myriad versions and translations, and I doubt that any one person would likely take the time to read them all. So it made a great impression on me when Rose told me how elated this man was to hold a Bible in his mother tongue---he no longer had to read it in his second language, Portuguese. I try to imagine what it would be like to want to read the Bible, but be told that the only way to read it is to learn another language.    

 

Brasília is a relatively new city. The capital of Brazil used to be Rio de Janeiro, but former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek had the capital moved to a more accessible, central region. So, Brasília was built in about four years and inaugurated in 1960. Fun Fact: The main part of the city is shaped like an airplane. 

The four pictures above are of the Catedral Metropolitana de Brasília and the Brazilian flag. I studied the architecture of this cathedral in an art history class, but I never thought I´d be seeing it in person. So cool!

And above is a video of the dance and song that I couldn´t upload last week. The guys leading are from the indigenous group Parakaná.




Saw this pic in a museum and just loved it. 

 

My lovely house sisters