Children’s TV presenter Gemma Hunt has filmed a special programme for SAT-7 with Lebanese counterpart, Marianne Awaraji. The pair filmed “Free to be me” at SAT-7’s London and Beirut studios respectively using Skype to connect them. Watch it now below! The focus was on how, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and the catastrophic explosion in Beirut, SAT-7’s faith-filled […]
Free to be me: A special programme with children’s presenter Gemma Hunt
Freedom of belief a priority, panelists tell Conservative Party fringe event
7 October 2020 While COVID-19 has increased violations of religious persecution, upholding freedom of religion and belief (FoRB) has become a much higher priority for UK parliamentarians, attendees of a virtual seminar at the Conservative Party Conference have heard. The fringe event, jointly organised by SAT-7 and the Conservative Christian Fellowship (CCF) on Monday, included high-profile FoRB advocates: Rehman Chishti […]
New Door Opens to Armenian Christians in Turkey
A new door has opened for SAT-7 to expand its programming for Turkey’s Armenian Orthodox Christian community. His Holiness Archbishop Sahak Mashalian, the new Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul, told SAT-7 TÜRK last month that he was keen to sign a long-term protocol with the channel. He said he wanted to ensure that “the relationship between the Patriarchate and SAT-7 TÜRK […]
Iranian women: Serving God from house church to prison
When 13 Iranian Christians were recently arrested in three different cities in Iran, at least four women were among them. As Iranian women play a vital ministry role even under threat of arrest, Mojdeh*, who spent 40 days in prison in Iran, encourages SAT-7 PARS viewers with how God’s “utterly tangible presence” sustained her there. “I was serving in a house church […]
Christian refugees took emergency aid to others who fled Moria fire
When Greece’s largest migrant camp burnt down on 9 September, recently converted Afghan and Iranian Christians in the camp used their own money to buy and distribute emergency provisions. Yaser, an Afghan Christian who regularly visited the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, told SAT-7 programme Secret of Life how the new believers prepared and took food to those […]
THE BRIEFING – SEPTEMBER 2020
Parts of the region are seeing welcome signs of peace this month, even as Lebanon struggled to pick itself up from a massive disaster in its capital. August’s explosion at the port in Beirut inflicted unprecedented damage across the Lebanese capital and wrecked its main export and import hub. Over 200 people died, thousands were injured and an estimated 300,000 […]
Cairo’s strange summer
SAT-7 Egypt journalist Mary Joseph reflects on a summer when Cairo’s bustling streets went abnormally quiet. While many Cairenes flocked to beach resorts, those who stayed behind faced a strange new reality. Four months on since the coronavirus made its official appearance in Egypt, the summer heat still soars, while the relentless virus-related WhatsApp messages have cooled off. Summer, a […]
Sarah’s story: Inspiring young Syrian woman is proof of SAT-7’s impact
A young Syrian woman who grew up with SAT-7 KIDS is living proof of the channel’s lasting positive impact. Sarah, who devotes her time to serving children, credits the Christian broadcaster with helping her develop her faith and strong values – even as she spent her entire adolescence in a warzone. Everything I do today, I learned from SAT-7 KIDS.” […]
“Syria needs Christians”
Syria desperately needs its Christian community, but they must be active in witness and service wherever they have opportunity. In a one-hour interview for SAT-7, Revd Joseph Kassab, President of the Supreme Council of Evangelical Churches of Syria and Lebanon, appealed to Syrian believers to remain in their homeland as a “sign of hope” despite their falling numbers. Revd Kassab was speaking as Syria, already ravaged by nine years of war, is now battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2011 Syria’s estimated Christian population […]
SAT-7 OFFERS VITAL LEARNING WHEN THERE IS NO “BACK TO SCHOOL”
While UK schools reported some 80 to 100 per cent of pupils returning to the classroom last week1, SAT-7 is prioritising the 15 million children in the Middle East and North Africa who are denied schooling by poverty, displacement or conflict. COVID-19 in the region has pushed even more people into poverty, putting more children at risk of losing out […]