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SIL International
MINISTRY SPOTLIGHT: SIL International
Mid-way through their three-year partnership, Dallas ministries Spoken Worldwide and Seed Company have launched five new Bible oral translation projects and announced more projects they will tackle in year three.
Bible translation organizations in the United States receive more than $500-million in donations per year. So how many Bibles actually get translated? And how much does a Bible translation cost?
Recently Wycliffe USA announced it would be joining with eight other groups to work on a bible translation effort in Southeast Asia. The project involves seven of the region’s language communities.
Using Translation Service Providers To Speed The Bible Translation Process
SRG has embarked on an experiment to see if a secular company – a Translation Service Providers, or TSPs – can translate the Bible.
American Bible Society
American Bible Society (ABS) began in 1816 with a mission “to make the Bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford, so all people may experience its life-changing ...
Big numbers, simple math, unavoidable conclusions
“It depends” has become part of the culture of the Bible translation industry. It has helped produce a lack of transparency and accountability that should be a giant red flag to the tens of thousands ...
Wycliffe Associates, a Florida-based Bible translation organization, continues to make claims about its work around the world while providing little or no evidence of the progress or success of that work.
Why are translations so expensive? Why do they take so long? Why is it so difficult to get progress reports on specific projects?
But details of new initiative are few
Wycliffe Associates, an Orlando-based Bible translation organization that MinistryWatch has been investigating because of concerns about transparency and accountability, continues to make claims about its Bible translation activities.
