Erich Kattner still remembers that back in 1939 and 1940, as he witnessed in the rural areas of Brazil he would often sleep in the open, using his literature bag as a pillow. There were just a few hundred Witnesses throughout the country then. Very few of those at whose homes he called had a Bible. To obtain Bibles to distribute to interested people, he would go to the local Bible Society’s bookstore, but after a while they would not sell Bibles to him anymore. However, he states: “I had the thrill and privilege of attending the ‘Everlasting Good News’ Assembly in New York City in 1963, when the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was released in six languages, including Portuguese. I was especially grateful to Jehovah to receive it in Portuguese, since I would be able to use it in my assignment in Brazil.”

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Erich Kattner rejoiced to see the “New World Translation” made available in Portuguese