Category: Eurasia
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Saved While Escaping
“I was a terrible husband for the first fifteen years of our marriage. Every weekend, I would get drunk, abuse my wife, and ridicule her. We mistreated each other terribly,” said Siroos. “But God amazingly changed all that.” Siroos Torabi is the Bible translation team leader for Transform Iran, unfoldingWord’s Iranian Whole Bible Whole Nation…
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New Believers in Iran
Thanks to the first-ever translation of unfoldingWord® Open Bible Stories into another Iranian language, twenty people have come to Christ, and a new house church has been launched in Iran. While helping the translation team, a woman who speaks a hard-to-reach language read the stories and decided to follow Jesus. Then, she shared her new…
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UKRAINE: Bomb Shelter Bible Translation
Ukrainian Great Commission partners are translating unfoldingWord’s suite of Bible translation tools to make God’s Word accessible to more than 540 languages spoken across the countries of the former Soviet Union. That’s more than 161 million people who need to hear God’s Word in their heart language, not Russian! But the war in Ukraine creates…
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Meesha’s Story
In the Republic of Iran, for the church to be planted, discipled, and grown, more than 60 people groups need a Bible translation in their own language. May was Iran’s bloodiest month in the last five years. The Islamic government led the world in executions last year with 576— almost double the previous year—and is…
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Escape from Kharkiv
BAM! A rocket penetrates a building, shattering windows and shaking foundations. Clatter! Bomb debris splatters cars, building façades, and adjacent roofs. Bang-Bang-Bang! The jackhammer staccato of AK-47s fills the streets as Russian soldiers assault Kharkiv. The attacks seem random, a restaurant here, an apartment there, a shop on the corner. No one can sleep. No…