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In times past, the Binumarien people of Papua New Guinea would paint their faces with black ashes, wear pig teeth necklaces, and even put pigs teeth in their mouths when going to war with other tribes. Many also carried string…

Learning to read better herself, a Quechua teacher instructs others too. After attending literacy training workshops run by AIDIA, Wycliffe Canada’s partner in Peru, 22-year-old Luz Marina is now serving as a voluntary literacy teacher in her community. Now that…

Nearly 60 years ago I read a book written by some Wycliffe Bible translators called Two-Thousand Tongues to Go. No one back in the late 1950s had any idea that there were more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world, most of…

August 30 is an important date in the history of Bible translation. That date in 2018 marked 100 years since Cameron Townsend first began to form the vision that would catalyze exponential growth in the rate of Bible translation (see…

Betty Amon remembers sitting with her family during family devotions, reading the Bible in Pohnpeian, one of Micronesia’s major languages. She could read the words aloud, but she didn’t have the faintest idea what they meant.

Workers with AIDIA, Wycliffe Canada’s partner organization in Peru, were surprised when they visited the community of Pacayura, site of a newly planted church.

Europe’s large influx of refugees has prompted Wycliffe Germany to launch a Scripture resource website called new-neighbour-bible.org.

It’s easy to imagine Bible translation as simply exchanging one set of words for another, but it is so much more than that. Situating translated Scripture in the cultural context is critically important.

Wycliffe founder William Cameron Townsend faced the future with openness, spontaneity and creativity. He was an explorer who chose not to follow existing models, but forthrightly forged ahead, believing God was guiding his dreams.

The ladies’ meetings in the local church were boring. One young lady wondered why…