We welcome opportunities to share about SAT-7’s broadcasts to and by the Christians of the Middle East and North Africa. Our Arabic, Persian and Turkish language programmes are viewed in 25 countries across the region and we have studios in Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and Cyprus, as well as London.

Our spokespeople can offer:

Insights into the everyday lives and experiences of Christians in the region
Details of how SAT-7 strengthens the ministry of the Middle East Church
Examples of how we promote social development in areas like education, children’s and women’s rights, and peaceful co-existence
Stories of personal transformation
Comment on events and developments in the region¹

¹Please note that exceptions are made for security reasons

We may also be able to supply high-resolution images and video content.

Get in touch

Email or call our press officer Lindsay Shaw

press@sat7uk.org

T: 01249 765865

M: 0796 9036177

SAT-7 LEADS PRAYERS FOR PILGRIMAGE SHOOTING VICTIMS

November 2018

As Egypt’s Christians mourn a deadly gun attack on Coptic pilgrims, SAT-7’s Arabic channels have been leading believers across the Middle East in prayer. Several shows lifted up grieving families, injured survivors, and vulnerable Egyptian Christians, allowing viewers to pour out their pain and grief to God. At least seven people were killed on 2 November when gunmen targeted buses […]

Topics: Children, Egypt, Prayer, Terrorism

MIDDLE EAST MINISTER: GOVERNMENT HAS “UPPED ITS GAME” IN SUPPORTING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

October 2018

Amid 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 […]

Topics: Afghanistan, Church Growth, Culture/Tradition, discrimination, Education, Persecution, Religious freedom, Secret believers

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, […]

Topics: Education, My School, refugees

Middle East attitudes to Christianity change and isolated believers feel supported by SAT-7

July 2018

10 July 2018 A recent viewer survey by Christian satellite and digital TV channel SAT-7 produced hundreds of viewer testimonies, demonstrating how SAT-7 is changing perceptions towards Christianity and providing valuable support for believers across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Over 5,000 people responded to an online viewer survey[1], which was promoted on social media and on three […]

Topics: Church, Church Growth, Discipleship, Equality, Hope/Encouragement, Lives Changed, new believers, Press Release, SAT-7 ARABIC, SAT-7 PARS, SAT-7 TURK

New leadership for Evangelical churches in Turkey

June 2018

The Association of Protestant Churches in Turkey (TEK) has chosen a new president and board of directors, reports SAT-7’s Turkish channel, SAT-7 TÜRK. Following voting by other pastors, Mr Ali Kalkandelen, the pastor of Life Family Church, Istanbul, was elected as the new president of TEK. The association, which began informally in the 1980s and was formally established in 2009, […]

Topics: Church, Church Growth, Leaders, SAT-7 TURK, Turkey

SAT-7 AUDIENCE IN IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN DOUBLES

May 2018

15 May 2018 The launch of SAT-7’s Persian television channel on a second satellite has seen the overall number of viewers contacting the channel double within its first year, including a surge in responses from Afghans. On 15 May 2017, SAT-7 PARS significantly expanded its audience reach by launching on the Yahsat satellite and, in doing so, became the only […]

Topics: Afghanistan, Iran, new believers, SAT-7 PARS, seekers, Tajikistan

SAT-7 films dedication of church to 21 Christians martyred in Libya

February 2018

Exactly three years after the beheading of 21 Christians on a Libyan beach horrified the world, a new church in the Egyptian village of Al-Aour has been dedicated in their memory. SAT-7 filmed the packed inauguration service (15 February) at the new Church of the Martyrs of Faith and Homeland, and will broadcast this online on 22 February and via […]

Topics: Copts, Egypt, Hope/Encouragement, Libya, Terrorism

First on-scene footage after Islamic State leaves Raqqa, Syria

January 2018

SAT-7 airs prayers for peace in city that became synonymous with cruelty and death In early December, Middle East Christian broadcaster SAT-7 and associate ministry Light for All Nations (LFAN) Ministries filmed the first on-the-ground footage in Raqqa, Syria since so-called Islamic State militants left. The two networks co-produced the documentary, Al Raqqa: between Yesterday and Today, presenting a message […]

Topics: news, peace, Prayer, Syria, Tensions/Conflict, Terrorism

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