New believers fill Syrian Churches
October 2018A SAT-7 children’s show visiting Syria found churches full of displaced people learning about Jesus for the first time. Almost a thousand children – including hundreds from non-Christian backgrounds – gathered in the Syrian cities of Tartus, Bloudan, and As-Suwayda to meet presenter Mina Awny and the SAT-7 production team of Family of Jesus. The popular children’s show mixes music, […]
MIDDLE EAST MINISTER: GOVERNMENT HAS “UPPED ITS GAME” IN SUPPORTING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
October 2018Amid a rise in religious intolerance “sensitivity” is key, Alistair Burt told delegates at a Conservative Party fringe event on Wednesday 3 October. “Incidents of religious intolerance and religious discrimination are on the rise across the globe,” Rt Hon Alistair Burt, Minister of State for the Middle East, said on Wednesday. He was speaking at a prayer breakfast on religious […]
Labour fringe hears Christian voices on the UK’s response to refugees
September 2018“Complex, powerful questions” were asked by a panel of MPs and NGO leaders on the UK’s treatment and integration of refugees at a Labour Party conference fringe event organised by SAT-7 and Christians on the Left. Heather Staff, of the Resettlement, Asylum & Migration Policy (RAMP) group, who acted as chair, was summing up the discussion involving MPs David Lammy, […]
Shattering the social media beauty illusion
September 2018Women around the world are bombarded with media images of physical “perfection”, leaving many feeling inadequate. Two SAT-7 women’s programmes are tackling the sources of this pressure. By exposing the illusion of perfection, the shows are helping Middle Eastern women feel beautiful as they are. Studies have shown that excessive social media use can lead to lower self-esteem and higher body dissatisfaction. […]
Iranian viewer rescued from addiction
Disillusioned with religion, Hamid* sought escape from his painful circumstances in drugs and alcohol. His life was miraculously turned around when he watched SAT-7 PARS’ programme Principles of Faith and heard about a God who loves him. “I was afraid of God and thought that I would end up deep in hell,” Hamid reflects, remembering his childhood in Iran. Surrounded by religion from […]
Big church growth in Algeria despite adversity
September 2018Producers Samia and Salah Kessai are no strangers to adversity – the church they attend recently reopened after months of enforced closure. But the couple, who make impactful SAT-7 programmes on the ground in Algeria, refuse to lose heart. Their work is a vital support for those choosing to follow Christ. Like many Christian leaders in Algeria, Samia and Salah […]
Olive project brings hope to refugees
When a couple living in Turkey saw local olive groves being destroyed to make way for new housing developments, they felt called to start a creative community project to help Syrian refugees. Debrah and Manfred, a Canadian and German who have lived in the Izmir region of Turkey for 18 years, were devastated to see olive wood from local trees […]
MIDDLE EAST TV MINISTRY GOES THROUGH ITS PACES AT RICHMOND RUNFEST
September 2018A team of 29 staff and supporters of Middle East satellite TV broadcaster SAT-7 took part in the Richmond RunFest in London’s Kew Gardens last weekend (15-16 September) – with star runner, Jonathan Cornish, coming fourth out of over three thousand runners. The SAT-7 team was composed of both supporters and staff of the ministry’s Chippenham-based UK office and of […]