Reaching out to young women with new ‘Girl’s World’ show
October 2016Throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), gender discrimination is rife. Women are considered to have lower status and value than men; there are limited education and employment opportunities for girls and women, and they are often subject to injustice and abuse. This starts from a young age. In Iran, girls from poor families are at risk of being […]
Myriam from Qaraqosh: longing for home
GIRL WHO FORGAVE ISIS CAN’T WAIT TO GO HOME TO QARAQOSH Almost two years after a SAT-7 interview with a ten-year-old displaced Iraqi girl went viral on the internet, the same girl told the channel she can’t wait to go home to Qaraqosh when the liberation of the Mosul area is completed. Myriam and her family spoke from the Erbil […]
Jesus, The Good Samaritan for Refugee Children
October 2016I really feel like the man on the road [in the story of the Good Samaritan].” This is how nine-year-old Sylvana described her experience as a refugee, having fled war-torn Syria. She was one of a number of children from the House of Hope School in Lebanon to take part in a special episode of live worship programme Let’s Sing […]
“They called me ‘faithless’ but I don’t care about that”
October 2016Salma’s story Persecution comes in many forms but it can be particularly harsh when your persecutors are your closest family. Salma knows how tough life can be when you follow Jesus in Morocco. Family life had always been difficult. Her father was very tough and her parent’s relationship suffered as a result. This inevitably affected the whole family and left […]
The Briefing – October 2016
October 2016The effects of unrelenting warfare on civilian populations continue to be felt from Syria to the Yemen. Only in Iraq does the fighting raise brighter hopes as so-called Islamic State are pushed out. Syria’s relentless war continues. A French draft resolution to the UN Security Council called for an immediate ceasefire in Aleppo and a no-fly zone to end the […]
Malatya murderers convicted but Turkish Christians “still don’t feel safe”
October 2016SAT-7 TÜRK Broadcasting Manager Gökhan Talas spoke this week following the long-awaited conviction of five men for the 2007 murders of three staff of a Turkish Christian publishing house where Talas and his wife also worked. On 28 September the criminal court in Malatya sentenced five Turkish men to life imprisonment for the premeditated murders of Turkish Christians Necati Aydin […]
Kidnapped Iraqi man tells of God’s faithfulness
September 2016An Iraqi man has shared how being kidnapped and held at gunpoint transformed his relationship with God. Emad from Baghdad told SAT-7’s We Grew Together about the terrifying ordeal in which he was blindfolded, tied up and seized along with six other men, including two of his wife’s brothers. Emad was raised in a Christian family but said he did […]
SAT-7 shares stories from Iran’s persecuted but growing Church
September 2016We know that new Christians in Iran face many problems, but we also know that God is faithful… Although we cannot estimate the number of active churches or house churches, God is moving. It amazes me, and gives me both fear and joy, to see how much God is working among our people. Despite our problems, His light is visible […]