This is so interesting to me. Translation is so important to communication, to our spirits, to living. This article says that they completed the first translation of the old and new testaments into Persian in over 100 years! No matter your religion, it has to be important to know that we have the ability to reach out to people all over the world with our messages.

“Today’s Persian Version” of the Bible has been completed and was officially dedicated in Istanbul, Turkey in August, enabling Persian-speaking people around the world to have a present-day translation of the Old and New Testaments.

The translation is significant because the last Persian translation of the Bible was done in the 1890s.

“This means that we now have a translation that is easy to understand and is in contemporary modern Persian language,” said the Rev. Kenneth Thomas, translation consultant for the new Bible and a former Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission co-worker in Iran.

Persian is the language of more than 100 million people worldwide, with the majority of them living in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

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