{"id":345,"date":"2025-04-23T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/?p=345"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:53:19","slug":"bible-society-in-italy-father-luca-mazzinghi-confirmed-as-president-pastor-luca-m-negro-new-general-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Bible Society in Italy: Father Luca Mazzinghi confirmed as President, Pastor Luca M. Negro new General Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday, April 8<sup>th <\/sup>2025, Father Luca Mazzinghi was confirmed as President and Baptist minister Luca Maria Negro was appointed as the new General Secretary of the Bible Society in Italy (<em>Societ\u00e0 biblica in Italia<\/em>, SBI) at the SBI\u2019s annual general assembly in Rome. The exiting General Secretary, Mario Cignoni, was named Honorary President of the Society. Cignoni has also been the coordinator of the recent Ecumenical Literary Translation (TLE) of the New Testament, which was presented in Rome last February 25<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Mazzinghi, who is professor of Old Testament at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, announced the next major challenge: \u201cthe ecumenical translation of the Old Testament, which is even more complex because of the breadth of the material and the differences between Christian denominations in determining the list of its \u2018canonical\u2019 books.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new General Secetary of SBI, Luca Maria Negro, has served as a pastor in various Baptist congregations and as a journalist, editing the ecumenical magazine <em>Confronti<\/em>, the Protestant weekly <em>Riforma<\/em> and the press agency <em>NEV<\/em> \u2013 <em>Notizie evangeliche<\/em>. He also was Secretary for Communications at the Conference of European Churches, based in Geneva (Switzerland), from 2001 to 2009, and President of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI) from 2015 to 2021. From 2017 to 2022 he was a member of the SBI Board of Directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 1983 as the heir to the historic British and Foreign Bible Society \u2013 active in Italy since 1851 \u2013 the Bible Society in Italy is a member of the United Bible Societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, April 8th 2025, Father Luca Mazzinghi was confirmed as President and Baptist minister&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsfromitaly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societabiblica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}