Source: Mission Network News, October 30, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AI is helping translate the Bible into Iran\u2019s ethnic languages faster, at a lower cost, and with less risk to translators. This is exciting news because speed matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe race really is to get ready for an open Iran,\u201d says Lana Silk, president and CEO at Transform Iran<\/a>, \u201cbecause 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s a real Bible poverty happening across these other [ethnic] people groups,\u201d Silk says. \u201cAnd the evidence is seen in the impact of the gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She says they envision having Bible translations completed and Bibles printed and ready for distribution within Iran\u2014before Iran opens up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story<\/a> and a previous but related piece, Unlock Bible translation breakthroughs across Iran\u2019s ethnic communities<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also an article exploring how, even as the Middle East experiences the fires of war, it\u2019s also seeing the fires of revival<\/a> (Ministry Watch). Very encouraging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, October 30, 2026 AI is helping translate the Bible into Iran\u2019s ethnic languages faster, at a lower cost, and with less risk to translators. This is exciting news because speed matters. \u201cThe race really is to get ready for an open Iran,\u201d says Lana Silk, president and CEO at Transform Iran, … Continue reading Iran: Racing to Translate the Bible for Minority Languages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14911,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910\/revisions\/14911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}