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 […]
MIDDLE EAST CHRISTIAN BROADCASTER COMES OF AGE!
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, […]
Holy Fire – April 2014
It is Saturday afternoon. Crowds are waiting, eyes are anticipating, hearts are eager to receive the light or “the Holy Fire” as it has been traditionally called. We are in a place no other than the Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem. You can barely find a room for one’s feet to step in. In fact, people seem to be on […]
Reliving the Passion – April 2014
“Ekhristos Anesti!” “Alithos Anesti!” These are words commonly heard in Egyptian Christian circles at this time: “Christ is risen!” we greet one another, “He is risen indeed!” we reply. Happy Easter! It’s a busy time for Christians in Egypt. Coptic Orthodox Christians, who make up about 90 per cent of the Christian population here, spend Passion Week, the last week […]
SAT-7 SPONSORS FIRST DIALOGUE WITHOUT WALLS FILM AWARDS
Independent judges award prizes to SAT-7 film-makers A new short film competition designed to promote dialogue across communities in post-Arab Spring countries has been co-sponsored by Christian broadcaster SAT-7. (Pic: Winning film directors, from front right, Tamer Arnest, Shokry Zikry and John Ikram) SAT-7 and national television stations aired the first awards ceremony live from the Nile Hall in downtown […]
26 NATIONS REPRESENTED AT FIRST SAT-7 NETWORK CONFERENCE IN TURKEY
SAT-7, the Christian satellite television broadcaster watched by over 15 million Arabic-, Farsi- and Turkish-speaking viewers in the Middle East and North Africa, will hold its annual “Network” conference in Turkey for the first time next week (26-28 March). During SAT-7’s international gathering of television producers, supporters and partner representatives, church leaders and SAT-7 staff from across the region will […]