Hello, India!

It was back in June 2007, when we launched Flickr in 7 additional languages, localizing in 15 countries. Today, that number has grown to 22* with India being our most recent addition last December.

To celebrate, we’ll be hosting three regional events. Please save the date:

Delhi, April 16th    Bangalore, April 21st    Mumbai, April 23rd

Whether you can attend or not**, please share a photo in Hello, India!, a companion group for our events. As with our previous events, photos from the Flickrverse have been a highlight of the evening. The full details are available in the group.

    

Photos from $aintVikas, j.fisher and anu1243.

* Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, United States, United Kingdom, and Venezuela.

** We’ll keep our fingers crossed.

Traveling Bible nearing completion of world tour

pA copy of the Bible written in 66 languages -- one for each book, from Genesis to Revelation -- is nearing the completion of its global itinerary. /p pThe Follow the Bible initiative, a href="http://news.adventist.org/2008/10/travelig-bible-begis-worlwie-trip-to-promote-scripture-stuy.html"launched in 2008/a at Seventh-day Adventist world church business meetings in Manila, Philippines, toured the Dominican Republic last month in its last stop in the church's Inter-American region. /p pIn each country the Bible has visited, local church leaders report large-scale distributions of Bibles among community members and a renewed interest in regular Bible reading and study among church members. /p pAt the initiative's launch, Follow the Bible project organizers cited a study indicating that less than 50 percent of the Adventist Church's membership regularly studies the Bible, adding that the touring Bible -- serving as a visible reminder of the importance of Scripture -- would ideally reignite a desire among Adventists to prioritize time spent in Bible study. /p p"It has been encouraging to witness the enthusiasm behind Follow the Bible around the world," said Garrett Caldwell, director of Public Relations for the Adventist world church. "The uniqueness of this Bible and the journey that it has taken has given the church a wonderful opportunity to talk to the public about the importance of scripture." /p pFollow the Bible will complete its tour of the church's 13 world regions this summer in Atlanta, Georgia, United States where thousands of Adventists will gather for their church's global business session. /ppbr //p iframe align="center" src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?set_id=72157623344991344amp;" frameborder="0" width="500" scrolling="no" height="500"/iframe img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ann-en/~4/rkvZyOpfrvA" height="1" width="1"/
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