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On my journey of discovery into the world of orality, I was very challenged by the following article from 2002: South Sudan. Recently, eighteen men and women graduated with a certificate from Southwestern B. Seminary without ever opening a book...

Where do migrants in Germany come from? If you look at the statistics, you realize that many of the migrants' countries of origin are classic mission countries, i.e. countries with unreached ethnic groups. Turkey leads the way with roughly 1.5 million people. As...

According to Wikipedia, there are around 16.4 million people living in Germany who were not born here. As a reminder, Germany currently has 84 million people. That means that roughly one in five people came to Germany from another country. By the way, that's...

When I told my wife about this statistic, she replied: "Now you've gone mad! Once you've learned to read, you can do it forever. If you get a high school diploma, you won't forget how to read." A day later, she went to her needlework circle....

People no longer read! The German book trade lost around a quarter of its customers from 2011-2021. Fewer and fewer people are reading books. With around 83 million people in 2021, less than one in three bought a book. Anyone who buys a book in Germany...