Women of faith celebrates= Women week 30th October 2011
ANNUAL WOMEN PROGRAM 2011
Women of faith celebrates= Women week 30th October 2011
speech by Deaconess Iwote
of AFRMI
King James Version (KJV) , also called Authorized Version or King James Bible , English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under the auspices of King James I of England. The translation had a marked influence on English literary style and was generally accepted as the standard English Bible from the mid-17th to the early 20th century. Background The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) succeeded in imposing a high degree of uniformity upon the Church of England . Protestantism was reinstated as the official religion of England after the short reign of Mary I (1553–58), who had attempted to restore Roman Catholicism in the country. In 1604, soon after James’s coronation as king of England, a conference of churchmen requested that the English Bible be revised because existing translations “were corrupt and not answerable to the truth of the original.” The Great Bible that had been authorized by Henry VIII (1538) enjoyed some popularity, but its success
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