The Catholic Church in Mongolia signed a memorandum of cooperation the Mongolian Union Bible Society (mubs)
Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, Head of the Catholic Church in Mongolia, with B. Bayarmagnai, the Executive Director of Mongolian Union Bible Society, signed a memorandum of cooperation today /2023.02.05/. In the framework of this multifaceted cooperation, works will be carried out to translate deuterocanonical books from their original languages into Mongolian and to eventually publish the Catholic Bible. The translation work will officially start on March 1, 2023 and is planned to be completed in 2026. With the successful completion of this project, Mongolian Catholics will have the opportunity to read the Word of God in their native language. The Protestant Bible consists of 66 books from which the Catholic Bible has 7 more books, which are called deuterocanonical books.
The executive director of MUBS B. Bayarmagnai said;
“As for the Mongolian Union Bible Society, we are happy to cooperate with the Catholic Church within the vision of bringing the Word of God to every Mongolian believer. Making 7 more books for the Mongolian Catholic believers is one of the duties of the society. We are also ready to cooperate in the printing of the Catholic version of the Bible. We are happy to work together on this project. I am glad to say that we need your prayers and support until the end.”
The head of the Catholic Church in Mongolia, Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, in turn said,
“I am happy to share the good news that the work of having a Catholic Bible will take a step forward in the coming years. For all Catholics, the Holy Bible or the Word of God has a very important place in our daily life. It is a 2,000-year-old Holy Catholic religion that has a tradition of reading and meditating on the Word of God every day, whilst praying and honoring it during religious ceremonies. We, as Catholics in Mongolia, are extremely happy that the work of translating the deuterocanonical books from Hebrew and Greek into Mongolian has begun.”
Not only is this an important day for Mongolian Catholics, but we would like to express our deepest gratitude to those who initiated and cooperated with this project.
