Eurasia
Accelerating Scripture translation in Eurasia
Church networks are building linguistic bridges to reach unreached people with the Word of God across the world’s largest continent.
Eurasia
Hundreds of people groups in Eurasia still need God’s Word in their language.
Explore Projects from Eurasia
Eurasian Gateway Language
Leading the way to other languages
Persian Gateway Language
Empower a dynamically growing church
About Eurasia
The Eurasian continent spans an enormous swath of land with widely diverse cultures. From Afghanistan to Austria, Croatia to the Czech Republic, Russia to Romania, almost every Eurasian country is home to many unreached people groups.
In some areas of Eurasia, roughly one person in 200 professes Christianity, and one in 10 of those is Evangelical. But people are crying out for God’s Word. Training, specialized tools and biblical resources in key Gateway Languages help Eurasian translators accelerate the work of bringing the Bible to their people.
For example, more than 540 ethnic languages have bilingual connections to Russian. Translators who know Russian can use assets in this Gateway Language to quickly and accurately provide Scripture to those who speak the related ethnic languages.
Whether translators speak Russian, Persian, Croatian, Hungarian, or another Gateway Language, your support of projects in this region will directly impact Eurasian Scripture translation by providing the resources, tools and training needed to build those bridges.
Stories from the field
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Your investment will help empower church networks worldwide to translate the whole Bible into their ethnic languages for the very first time.
