People of the World Inscribe the Bible comes to Russia

St. Petersburg, March 24 (Interfax) - Russian set of the international project People of the World Inscribe the Bible opens in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, organizers of the event have reported.

At the opening ceremony in the House of Jewish Culture, citizens of St. Petersburg will have an opportunity to copy in their native language one line from more than 23 thousand Bible verses. Then the book with handwritten Bible verses will be sent to a book salon of the city where everyone can write a fragment from Bible at a special stand.

Then thousands of handwritten pages will be bind and taken to the Bible House in Israel where this unique testimony to the union of nations will be preserved for centuries. It is planned to create a hundred of handwritten Bibles in hundred various languages.

Representatives of 54 countries including USA, Great Britain, Argentine, India and others have participated in the project.

Several countries completed their participation as books in Chinese, Tamil, Taiwanese and Finnish have been displayed in Jerusalem.