Ingiloy New Testament

• Location: Eurasia
• New Testament Completion Target Date: 2033

The Ingiloy are a minority group in Eurasia and are referred to as an “unreached" people, since they lack enough believers and resources to effectively witness to their people. In their home country, they number about 30,000 people, with 10% professing Christianity.

The Ingiloy believers, who reside in nine towns, lack Scriptures in their language and experience persecution for their faith. About one-third of these believers trusted Christ through the ministry of an evangelist. Additional members of this language group have come to Christ in the past few decades. After two of these converts attended a Bible college in a neighboring country, one returned to his homeland and encouraged his people to ask for assistance from Bibles International for a New Testament translation.

Since foreign language translations are difficult to obtain but also not well understood by most of the people, the Ingiloy believers desperately need a Bible in their language. So, they formed a translation team and a sponsorship committee, and BI completed a literacy workshop and linguistic analysis in 2014. Bibles International adopted the Ingiloy New Testament translation project in January 2015 and printed a trial edition of the Gospel of Mark in 2019.

Since the local police had raided their meeting places and fined their pastors for holding illegal services, the Bible translation team asked for no public mention of the translation project and even initially withheld the news of the translation work from their own congregations. Today, they are experiencing more freedom, but they remain cautious. In 2022, the Ingiloy received a second printing of the Gospel of Mark. This time, it was printed in two scripts to include most Ingiloy speakers. In addition, Faith Comes By Hearing has produced an audio and video version of the Gospel of Mark. In 2024, the Ingiloy received a trial edition of the book of Acts, also written in two scripts.

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