Article 4 in our series: The Ethics of Global Engagement Asking a believer from a non-Christian background to share their experience of God brings a responsibility, says a Middle East writer: to let them tell their story honestly, and to support them in their ongoing discipleship. All too often that isn’t what happens… When I first became a Christian from […]
Testimonies that build the hearer but break the teller
IRANIAN CHRISTIAN LEADER APPOINTED NEW HEAD OF TV CHANNEL FOR IRANIANS
The Board of SAT-7 PARS (a Christian satellite television ministry broadcasting in the Persian language) has appointed Revd Mansour Khajehpour as the channel’s next Executive Director, effective 7 July 2014. Mansour is the second Director for SAT-7 PARS and succeeds Ms Sara Afshari, who joined SAT-7 PARS (then called Iranian Christian Broadcasting, ICB) in 2002. At that time, PARS was […]
His Spirit is with us – June 2014
“When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That’s what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.” – David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade Two events gave a fresh and powerful impetus to the disciples of Jesus after their Master had died on the cross. The […]
A president’s inauguration: joy and questions – June 2014
“Tahya Masr,” Arabic for “Long live Egypt” is the phrase I heard repeatedly as I stood in the long lines awaiting to cast my ballot for Egypt’s president. A statement fuelled by hope, driven by patriotism, and unashamedly declaring a clear intention to vote for El-Sisi, who chose “Tahya Masr” as a very clever campaign slogan. Three long election days […]
MIDDLE EAST CHRISTIAN BROADCASTER COMES OF AGE!
On Saturday, 31 May, SAT-7 celebrates a phenomenal 18 years of Christian broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa. In 1996, SAT-7 began broadcasting just two hours a week from a rented studio in Beirut. Today, SAT-7 broadcasts 800 hours a week of programming for over15 million viewers from Morocco to Afghanistan! The network broadcasts 24/7 in Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish languages […]
A MILLION SYRIAN CHILDREN COULD BE RADICALISED, SAT-7 CEO WARNS
“A million refugee children living outside Syria with no real hope are very vulnerable to being radicalised,” the Chief Executive of Christian Middle East broadcaster, SAT-7 has warned. Speaking in Ealing, West London, on Saturday (17 May), Dr Terence Ascott said it was a “scary fact”: “We have a very dangerous future with so many young people growing up angry […]
Relating to people of other faiths
Article 3 in our series: The Ethics of Global Engagement Five things to avoid in our witness to people of other faiths. A Middle East Christian advises us. The world has gotten smaller. People of other faiths who used to live in faraway places now live next door to us. Ease of transport means more than ever that many of […]
CANTERBURY RECONCILIATION DIRECTOR HIGHLIGHTS THE GIFT OF THE MIDDLE EAST CHURCH AND ITS CHALLENGES
Canon David Porter, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Director of Reconciliation was the keynote speaker at “The Untold Story: the Middle East behind the Headlines”, a SAT-7-sponsored event in Belfast last Saturday. Canon Porter began by speaking of his experiences of visiting the Middle East on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury and hinting at what it can teach Christians in […]
FROM SYRIA TO EGYPT – A FEAST OF EASTER WORSHIP FOR MIDDLE EAST VIEWERS
In a year when the Easter festival falls at the same time in the Eastern and Western church calendars, Christian satellite TV broadcaster SAT-7 will transmit worship services from all the main denominations and from churches in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. Through its Arabic, Farsi and Turkish language channels it will give Christian viewers and others across the region access […]
RECORD NUMBERS HEAR HOW TV BRINGS HOPE TO MIDDLE EAST
There was a record attendance at last week’s annual conference of SAT-7, the Middle East Christian satellite TV broadcaster. Held for the first time in Turkey, from 26-28 March, SAT-7’s annual ‘Network’ conference attracted 250 people from 25 countries, an indication of the growing concern for the troubled Middle East region among many people around the world. Contributors from Iran, […]