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Bibles for Iran? Be ready, ministry urges Christians
The Christian Chronicle ^ | Apr 2026 | Erik Tryggestad

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at christianchronicle.org ...


TOPICS: Ministry/Outreach
KEYWORDS: bibles; evangelism; farsi; iran; ministry; missionaries; persia; scripture

1 posted on 04/23/2026 9:41:51 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

BTTT


2 posted on 04/23/2026 9:43:32 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Physical Bibles are old tech for smuggling.

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.

3 posted on 04/23/2026 9:55:03 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Ann Coulter was right, but distributing Bibles must come with willing teachers, who risk martyrdom...


4 posted on 04/23/2026 10:12:12 PM PDT by Does so (☞"For English, press 2"...Dem☭¢rats ™ ® © ≣ ½⅓⅔¼¾ ⅛⅜⅝⅞ ⅓ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚)
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To: Deaf Smith

I once dated a girl whose parents had spent some time smuggling Bibles into Cuba. It was quite a thrilling experience, it seemed.


5 posted on 04/23/2026 10:40:57 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

They need smuggled rifles first.


6 posted on 04/24/2026 3:24:47 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Gideons Bible App has 6 Iranian choices and it is audio as well. Unfortunately it requires the internet to work.


7 posted on 04/24/2026 4:06:48 AM PDT by DocRock
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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.


8 posted on 04/24/2026 4:33:42 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Smuggle?


9 posted on 04/24/2026 6:23:01 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? )
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To: Deaf Smith
That's very cool. Except, when the totalitarians learned there was such a thing, they'd confiscate all cell phones. Still, that's very cool.

I didn't read the article, but I guess those people don't have computers, internet, etc?

10 posted on 04/24/2026 7:21:25 AM PDT by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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To: DocRock

Iranians don’t have internet?


11 posted on 04/24/2026 7:22:05 AM PDT by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Oh noes! Stupid American "rednecks" are going to turn Iranians into dispensationalist heretics!!!![/sarc]

Better we should lose the war![/sarc]

12 posted on 04/24/2026 7:54:47 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Thanks will pray: Iranians will get to visit Israel, Israelis visit Iran. Those with Persian Jewish roots get to visit home.

And not buy into the dispensational heresies.

🙏


13 posted on 04/24/2026 8:03:50 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege (🦋🌷🩰)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Yes, a good thing, even if considered dangrous in the past by you known who:
Preface to The Douay–Rheims Bible...is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English...Which translation we do not for all that publish, upon erroneous opinion of necessity, that the Holy Scriptures should always be in our mother tongue, or that they ought, or were ordained by God, to be read impartially by all, or could be easily understood by every one that readeth or heareth them in a known language; or that they were not often through man's malice or infirmity, pernicious and much hurtful to many; or that we generally and absolutely deemed it more convenient in itself, and more agreeable to God's Word and honour or edification of the faithful, to have them turned into vulgar tongues, than to be kept and studied only in the Ecclesiastical learned languages.,,and no vulgar translation commonly used or employed by the multitude.. (https://web.archive.org/web/20160109104536/http://www.bombaxo.com/douai-nt.html)

14 posted on 04/24/2026 8:11:16 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

There are so many varieties now of “dispensationalism” and “premillennialism” and “premillennial dispensationalism” that I don’t even know what can fairly be called heretical or not. Part of having FAITH means accepting the mystery of God’s plans.

Paul told the Corinthians we can only prophesy “in part.” Only God has the full picture. Sometimes just claiming to know the mind of God about “matters too great for me” (As David alludes to in the Psalms) is heresy in and of itself!

And while we may not have the mind of God, we can definitely know we don’t have the HEART of God if we claim that someone or some group is beyond the hope of redemption.

Paul said NOW is the time of salvation.

“Behold, NOW is the favorable time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2)

You could be a murderer sitting in county jail, or a Hollywood actress. You can be a tribesman in the Amazon. You can be a Hasidic Jew, you can be an Imam. A Marxist…No one is beyond the reach of Jesus Christ.


15 posted on 04/24/2026 8:31:49 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege (🦋🌷🩰)
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To: LouAvul
>>Except, when the…

Countries they have been to; if one is caught with a Bible, he will be thrown in prison.

16 posted on 04/24/2026 9:02:38 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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