Melih Ekener (centre) and Broadcasting Manager Gökhan Talas (left) are interviewed by Mirgün Cabas on CNN Türk The recent launch of SAT-7 TÜRK, the latest addition to SAT-7’s now five-strong stable of Christian satellite TV stations broadcasting across the Middle East, has achieved wall-to-wall coverage across the Turkish broadcast and print media. The SAT-7 TÜRK website also received well over […]
On air school will help refugee Syrian and Iraqi children learn again Maths teacher Shams explains basic addition SAT-7 has launched a new on-air school to enable displaced Syrian and Iraqi children whose education has been disrupted by conflict to start learning again. My School, a 90-minute programme aired Monday-Friday, will teach young viewers the core subjects of maths, Arabic […]
Archbishop Justin Welby recorded a message of solidarity for Middle East Christians last week when he was interviewed by SAT-7’s Forbidden programme. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Welby, has shared his heart for people of the Middle East enduring the violence wrought by ISIS in an interview for Middle East Christian broadcaster SAT-7. Archbishop Welby spoke last […]
SAT-7 Egypt Director sees impact of “Resistance through forgiveness” The videos of a ten-year-old Iraqi displaced by IS (Islamic State) and of a brother of two Egyptian labourers beheaded in Libya both voicing forgiveness for their persecutors have been watched by a million viewers and drawn the attention of mainstream Arab media which rarely covers Christian news. Under the title […]
The brother of two of the 21 Coptic Christians murdered in Libya, last night used live television to thank their killers for including the men’s declaration of faith in the video of their execution. Christian channel SAT-7 ARABIC has become a mouthpiece for the families of the young men over the last six weeks since they were first abducted. Maher […]
SAT-7 short films win Best Film and Best Actress awards Two short films produced by SAT-7, A Dress and Braids, have won awards at film festivals in Egypt and Mauritania. Both films promote women’s rights and raise awareness of social challenges they face in Middle East and North African societies. “In the light of SAT-7’s mission of defending the weak […]
Lebanese TV presenters and musicians have shared how Christians in the Middle East are seeking to share the love of Christ to people fleeing conflict and atrocities in Syria and Iraq. Joyce Saddi and Rawad Daou – two hosts of a weekly live youth show from Beirut broadcast on Christian satellite channel, SAT-7 ARABIC – spoke and performed songs at […]
Series Airs as Elections Hang in the Balance Marking the occasion of Lebanon’s presidential elections, SAT-7 produced and is airing Wars and Faith (in Arabic, Haroob wa Iman). The powerful 10-episode series features interviews with presidential candidates and former players in Lebanon’s prolonged civil war (1975-1990). Presenter Hiam Abou Chedid, a renowned actress and TV presenter, asks the politicians about […]
The Board of SAT-7 PARS (a Christian satellite television ministry broadcasting in the Persian language) has appointed Revd Mansour Khajehpour as the channel’s next Executive Director, effective 7 July 2014. Mansour is the second Director for SAT-7 PARS and succeeds Ms Sara Afshari, who joined SAT-7 PARS (then called Iranian Christian Broadcasting, ICB) in 2002. At that time, PARS was […]
On Saturday, 31 May, SAT-7 celebrates a phenomenal 18 years of Christian broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa. In 1996, SAT-7 began broadcasting just two hours a week from a rented studio in Beirut. Today, SAT-7 broadcasts 800 hours a week of programming for over15 million viewers from Morocco to Afghanistan! The network broadcasts 24/7 in Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish languages […]