Source: Mission Network News, October 30, 2026
AI is helping translate the Bible into Iran’s ethnic languages faster, at a lower cost, and with less risk to translators. This is exciting news because speed matters.
“The race really is to get ready for an open Iran,” says Lana Silk, president and CEO at Transform Iran, “because we are fully anticipating that God is going to shake that nation further and open it up to the gospel in a way that it has never been before.”
You may have heard that Iran has one of the fastest-growing churches in the world. But Silk says it is mostly happening among Farsi speakers, who have access to Scripture in their language. Today, dozens of languages spoken in Iran have no Scripture available in them.
“There’s a real Bible poverty happening across these other [ethnic] people groups,” Silk says. “And the evidence is seen in the impact of the gospel.”
She says they envision having Bible translations completed and Bibles printed and ready for distribution within Iran—before Iran opens up.
Read the full story and a previous but related piece, Unlock Bible translation breakthroughs across Iran’s ethnic communities.
See also an article exploring how, even as the Middle East experiences the fires of war, it’s also seeing the fires of revival (Ministry Watch). Very encouraging.