Posted on 04/23/2026 9:41:51 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Missionaries in Vienna, Austria, launched Eastern European Mission in 1961 to smuggle Bibles in all the languages of the Soviet World — Hungarian, Romanian, Polish and Russian, to name a few.
Farsi wasn’t on the list.
Workers with EEM are preparing not only to supply more Bibles for Iranians in Europe but also to send God’s Word into Iran itself.
“We cannot wait for that moment and then start deciding what to do,” said Bob Burckle, EEM’s president. “The Bible already exists in the languages many Iranian people can read,” and depending on the outcome of the current conflict, “the need could be far greater than anything we have seen before.”
The ministry has produced almost 90,000 Bibles for various age groups in Iran and is working on the first-ever New Testament in Gilaki, a language spoken by an ethnic group that lives in northern Iran near the Caspian Sea. EEM works with Transform Iran, a ministry focused on strengthening Iranian believers in the country and reaching new believers through radio and digital media. Transform Iran also invests in Bible translation.
Iran’s 93 million people speak 39 languages, but a full version of the Bible exists in only four of these languages, said Lana Silk, an Iranian-born Christian and president and CEO of Transform Iran. Nonetheless, Iran has one of the fastest-growing Christian communities in the world, she said.
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Our missionaries came to our Sunday school class about 1.5 years ago.
The guy being a tech geek developed a phone app for the Bible in almost any language.
The key was that the app was disguised as a calculator.
To open the Bible app was a code and could be closed and locked with a specific key entry.
The missionary couple gave a hint they their group was or had been in Iran.
Ann Coulter was right, but distributing Bibles must come with willing teachers, who risk martyrdom...
I once dated a girl whose parents had spent some time smuggling Bibles into Cuba. It was quite a thrilling experience, it seemed.
They need smuggled rifles first.
The Gideons Bible App has 6 Iranian choices and it is audio as well. Unfortunately it requires the internet to work.
The Muslim world is ripe for the Word of God. We support some missionaries who distribute Bibles and Christian teaching materials in native languages to Muslims in North Africa. They give out hundreds of thousands a year.
Smuggle?
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