New Dhopadola audio Bible brings a sigh of hope to believers.

Archive Picture: Dr.Bishop Girado of Pentecostal Outreach Ministries International, Tororo

Hundreds of Dhopadola speaking people recently welcomed the first ever audio Bible translated in Dhopadola language by the Bible Society of Uganda.

The fully translated Bible was released to the thunderous attendees in an event held at St. Peter’s Cathedral Tororo in which many of the attendees were visually impaired people.

Speaking at the launch, the paramount cultural leader of the Dhopadola speaking people Kwar Stephen Moses Owor, thanked the Bible Society of Uganda for its initiative of making the Word of God accessible to all.

The excited cultural leader said with the launched audio Bible, people who did not get a chance to attend formal education and those who are visually impaired will now be able to follow and get a complete version of bible in audio.

He said as per the provisions in the 1995 Constitution of Uganda and the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, people with visual impairments must have access to information which he said the provision of audio version is going to address.

The Vicar General of Tororo Arch Diocese Rev. Father Christopher Emuset said the launch of the translated audio Bible in local language becomes the first step in realization of the constitutional rights for people to access information in all forms.

He said its not necessarily that the audio version will only serve those with visual impairments or those who could have not attended formal education but it will serve all because our people have a bad reading culture.  

The bishop of Pentecostal Outreach Ministries International Dr. Girado Olukol said ‘’Because of now these audio scriptures, the believers will be able to get the Word of God in any way they want’’.

He said as preachers, they had always found it had to assign their believers to read the bible in-depth because most of them cannot read and keep relying on others to read and integrate for them of which some of them may not translate it the way its written.

Bishop Olukol appealed to the government to consider exempting levying tax on importation of bibles because this suffocates them from requesting some of their friends from abroad to donate bibles to their churches.

 Meanwhile the Chief Executive Officer Bible Society of Uganda announces continuous commitment of the bible society to its mission of making the Bible available to every person in a language and format they can understand and afford so that each one of them may experience its life changing message.

He challenged church leaders to ensure that they avail the audio Bibles to their believers because not all of them may have a capacity to afford them as individuals and encouraged them to organize their believers in listening groups.