Thousands of Egyptian Christians are expected to gather for a third national day of prayer for their country this Friday, 29 November – and hundreds of thousands more will participate through a live television broadcast by the Christian SAT-7 ARABIC channel. Entitled “They shall come to the Desire of All Nations”, the event will be held at the Wadi Natroun […]
SAT-7 CEO and founder Dr Terence Ascott will be a key speaker at the 2013 conference of the Fellowship of European Broadcasters (FEB) this week as delegates from across the continent consider the challenge “Changing Media – Unchanging Message”. Dr Ascott will explain how SAT-7’s commitment to stay at the forefront of media developments is proving vital in serving audiences […]
An “out-of-this-world love and an out-of-this-world faith” are what the Middle East needs at this time, SAT-7 Lebanon Executive Director Naji Daoud told UK audiences as part of SAT-7’s “Hope in the Face of Hardship Tour”. SAT-7 Lebanon Director Naji Daoud The director of SAT-7’s Christian television station in Beirut highlighted especially how Lebanese Christians are loving their Syrian […]
Despite obstacles, SAT-7 airs mega youth conference from the heart of Egypt A remarkable gathering of over 10,000 young Christians in Egypt went ahead from 26 to 28 September despite Egypt’s continuing precarious security and a wave of unprecedented violence against the Christian community a month before. And Middle East Christian broadcaster SAT-7 transmitted the three days of prayer, teaching […]
On Thursday 12 September Christian satellite TV channel SAT-7 PARS celebrates 11 years of broadcasting biblical truth in the Farsi language to Iran. Since it first aired in 2002 SAT-7 PARS has broadcast a variety of programmes including women’s shows, drama, discipleship courses, feature films, teaching and shows specifically for children, to the Farsi-speaking audience in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and […]
On Sunday 8th September, Middle East Christian broadcaster SAT-7 aired footage of Egyptians worshipping in the remains of the Evangelical Church of Beni Mazar. Located in the town of Minia, Upper Egypt, it was one of over 80 Egyptian churches targeted in violent attacks during August. This special episode aired as part of the SAT-7 programme, My Church. Dark smears […]
SAT-7 CEO explains why Egyptians see events differently Recent political events in Egypt, especially security force conflicts with the Muslim Brotherhood, have highlighted both deep divisions within Egypt and between how the situation has been viewed in Egypt and abroad. All people with a concern for human life have been deeply distressed by the violence and numbers of deaths in […]
The six-week standoff between an Egyptian government installed by the army and supporters of ousted President Morsi came to a violent end yesterday (15 August) with at least 525 deaths and 3,572 injured (BBC report 15/8/2013). As the army crackdown occurred, reprisal attacks that had been threatened during the protests were made by Morsi sympathisers against many buildings across the […]
The Lebanese Center for Human Rights recently granted Juliana Sfeir, on behalf of SAT-7, the Human Rights Journalism Award. Sfeir is a special projects manager at SAT-7 Lebanon and an executive producer of social impact programmes for SAT-7. The Lebanese Center for Human Rights granted the award to five recipients “for their dedication to promoting Human Rights through the media”. […]
Thousands of Christian children pray to become change-makers in Egypt In a country rocked by change and division, some 1,400 eight to fourteen-year-old Egyptian children last week gathered to worship and ask God to change them to be the salt and light for Jesus in their communities. The first ever One Thing Kids festival was held at the desert oasis […]