With one-third of the world's 7,000-plus languages endangered -- most oral-only or without an alphabet -- a Bible translation group is helping to save lost and dying languages. Wycliffe Bible ...

First finished Scripture for deaf people prompts attention to global need. The completion of the first sign language Bible translated from the original languages prompted cheers and celebrations in ...

While the world loses a language every 40 days, translation efforts bring new life to threatened tongues. Bible translators have made it a priority to give people around the world the chance to study ...

Ulf Hermjakob and Joel Mathew are researchers at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute in Marina Del Rey, California. Joel Mathew, left, and Ulf Hermjakob, researchers ...

(RNS) — The Christian hearing community naturally emphasizes the spoken word, whether through singing worship or reading from the pulpit, and often highlights the various ways one can “hear” God.

WALLKILL, N.Y. — A fifteen year-long labor of love recently culminated with the public release of the final book of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures in American Sign Language (ASL), ...

The Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN) has unveiled the fully translated Holy Bible in Okun, a Yoruba language dialect spoken in Kogi, Kwara and Ekiti States. “We now have the full Holy Bible in 27 ...

Apple's Siri, Google Translate and other language technologies have long been the preserve of people who speak English or other majority languages. If you speak Welsh, Faroese or Galician, technology ...

A professor from the Divinity College at McMaster University is one of a group of translators involved in a four-year $3.5 million dollar project to publish a new translation of the Bible. “We were ...