A new report by the United Bible Societies (UBS) has shown the distribution of Bibles increased worldwide in 2021. 

At least 32.6 million complete Bible editions were distributed last year following the "pandemic-related slump in Bible distribution in the previous year", an increase of 5.5 per cent in 2021 compared to 2020. 

Around 20 per cent of all distributed Bibles were downloaded from the internet.

According to the report, the distribution of digital editions "is playing an increasingly important role, especially in crisis regions" such as Mozabimque. 

The Bible Society there was able to provide a digital Bible edition to a total of 51,000 people. 

However, the distribution containing only the New Testament was down, going from 5.7 million to
5.1 million in 2021. 

Horst Scheurenbrand, head of World Bible Aid at the German Bible Society said: "apart from Europe, more full Bibles were distributed on every continent than in the previous year. This is a good sign after the significant decline the year before".