SAT-7 Egypt journalist Mary Joseph describes how the arrival of Coronavirus set light to social media and how SAT-7’s voice is being heard above the clamour while the country’s churches are silenced. Coronavirus came and set my WhatsApp on fire. Every few minutes I check it and find a list of messages that could either be text, pictures, videos […]
A prayer shared live by Revd Keyvan Cyrus on SAT-7 PARS’ programme Signal created a powerful dialogue between the channel and its viewers, when hundreds of messages poured in as a response. “Let these diseases and microscopic organisms that can destroy our bodies be replaced by harmony and peace, mercy and healing in our bodies,” Cyrus prayed in response to the pandemic that has […]
SAT-7 KIDS’ new social media strategy is achieving striking results. Their industry-leading approach has helped to double viewer engagements! Youngsters across the Middle East are growing in faith as they explore the safe haven of SAT-7 KIDS, in the midst of a hazardous and unregulated online world. New weekly Facebook Live broadcasts of the popular SAT-7 KIDS shows Bible Heroes […]
Marianne and Rawad Daou are doing something truly extraordinary. On From Heart to Heart, their live relationship-counselling programme on SAT-7 ARABIC, the couple exude radical vulnerability, empathy and love. For viewers who are hurting terribly – and who often have nowhere else to turn – this show is a catalyst for life-changing breakthroughs. Rawad is committed to modelling vulnerability to […]
The new decade may be young, but major difficulties have already arisen in the MENA. Hope in some communities is as valuable and as rare as gold. Rita El-Mounayer (pictured), SAT-7’s CEO, has been speaking hope into the situation with a series of video blogs (vlogs). One of her recent vlogs began with the startling truth that “the Middle East […]
Welcome to Team Spotlight, a new feature in News & Prayer, which takes you behind the scenes of the SAT-7 UK team so you can get to know us a bit better! We call ourselves ‘Comms’ for short, to save four valuable syllables. Which is ironic, really, because we are the team that love to speak and type a deluge […]
Here, in the first Studio Spotlight, we visit Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, which hosts SAT-7’s largest studio. SAT-7’s first studio in Lebanon opened in 1996, and for many years operated out of a rented space at the Baptist seminary in Beirut. A much-needed move in 2014 brought big changes. Now, perched on a hillside looking out over sprawling Beirut to the […]
SpaceNet, an innovative new show airing on SAT-7 KIDS, is helping young people to know God and His big plans for their life. How exactly? By flying through space, of course! The show is presented by a popular YouTuber – 15-year-old Markus Kashouh – who leads viewers on a journey through space. “SpaceNet really shows how amazing God is,” Markus […]
For those who received a Christian upbringing, complete with youth weekends away, Bible study groups and church worship events, it can be easy to take all this for granted. Young believers in Algeria, on the other hand, are surrounded by tension and pressure. Christian activities are restricted by law, making it difficult for believers to share their faith with others. […]
He was born in Iran. His parents were not Christians. He grew up in a time when persecution was hitting the Iranian Church hard. So how did Reza Jafari (below) become the presenter of new SAT-7 PARS show Signal, which inspires and encourages so many Christians? In one word: Immanuel. “I’d never heard or known anything about Christianity or other […]