Team Spotlight: Communications Team
February 2020Welcome to Team Spotlight, a new feature in News & Prayer, which takes you behind the scenes of the SAT-7 UK team so you can get to know us a bit better! We call ourselves ‘Comms’ for short, to save four valuable syllables. Which is ironic, really, because we are the team that love to speak and type a deluge […]
Studio Spotlight: Beirut, Lebanon
Here, in the first Studio Spotlight, we visit Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, which hosts SAT-7’s largest studio. SAT-7’s first studio in Lebanon opened in 1996, and for many years operated out of a rented space at the Baptist seminary in Beirut. A much-needed move in 2014 brought big changes. Now, perched on a hillside looking out over sprawling Beirut to the […]
Life Lessons From Outer Space
SpaceNet, an innovative new show airing on SAT-7 KIDS, is helping young people to know God and His big plans for their life. How exactly? By flying through space, of course! The show is presented by a popular YouTuber – 15-year-old Markus Kashouh – who leads viewers on a journey through space. “SpaceNet really shows how amazing God is,” Markus […]
SAT-7 KIDS FEEDS YOUNG SOULS IN ALGERIA
For those who received a Christian upbringing, complete with youth weekends away, Bible study groups and church worship events, it can be easy to take all this for granted. Young believers in Algeria, on the other hand, are surrounded by tension and pressure. Christian activities are restricted by law, making it difficult for believers to share their faith with others. […]
AUDIENCES GROW AS SAT-7 CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS ON NATIONAL TV PLATFORM IN TURKEY
February 2020This week Christian television network SAT-7 celebrates five years of Turkish-language broadcasting on Türksat, the main satellite TV platform in Turkey. Five years ago, the launch was described as “a miracle”. Today, SAT-7 TÜRK’s locally produced programmes are being appreciated by a growing audience in the country, both of Christians and members of the general population. “It would be impossible […]
Sudan: of the people by the people for the people
February 2020New government heralds an epoch of change After popular protests removed President Omar al-Bashir last year, Sudan has been engaged in a three-year transition towards democracry. Teresa Sfeir, who lectures at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut, examines the progress made and the significant challenges still to be overcome. The people of Sudan refused to back down this time. […]
ALGERIA: “THEY CAME WITH GUNS, BUT WE TOLD THEM ABOUT JESUS”
February 2020When armed authorities came to close down Riki Church in north-eastern Algeria, they were met with the peace of Christ. In a new SAT-7 documentary, Riki Church’s leader and other Algerian pastors speak out, sharing their stories of injustice and how believers are standing for their rights while remaining peacemakers in their communities. “Three cars showed up here with men […]
Immanuel, God is With Us: A Testimony
January 2020He was born in Iran. His parents were not Christians. He grew up in a time when persecution was hitting the Iranian Church hard. So how did Reza Jafari (below) become the presenter of new SAT-7 PARS show Signal, which inspires and encourages so many Christians? In one word: Immanuel. “I’d never heard or known anything about Christianity or other […]