THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE PUBLISHED IN THE NANAI LANGUAGE

11/12/12 At the request of Metropolitan Ignatius of Khabarovsk and Amur Diocese the Institute for Bible Translation IBT has released a new edition of the Gospel of Luke in Nanai language accompanied by a parallel Russian Synodal translation, reports the IBT website. In the preface to the new edition the head of the Priamurskaya Archdiocese Native Nations Affairs Commission hieromonk Nikanor (Lepeshev) notes that “the far Eastern natives’ first written language appeared due to the efforts of the Orthodox Church.