One week after a fire destroyed a church in a densely populated area of Cairo, Egypt, church and family members have paid tribute to the victims on SAT-7. Two programmes addressed the tragedy that shocked citizens across Egypt. Fire took hold at the Abu Sefein church in Imbaba, Giza, in greater Cairo during a morning mass on the 14 August. […]
A SAT-7 series is producing new worship songs for the suffering Iranian Church – written by a martyr’s son in collaboration with Iranian Christian refugees in Turkey. Gilbert Hovsepian was only 17 when his father, Revd Haik Hovsepian Mehr, the President of the Council of Protestant Churches in Iran and a courageous spokesman for freedom of religion, was kidnapped and […]
Christians in Afghanistan face an existential threat from the Taliban. Revd Tat Stewart, one of the founders of SAT-7 PARS, recalls when Iranian Christians also feared they would be wiped out, 40 years ago. And yet the years since have proven that “the gates of hell cannot prevail”. He shares how the story of the Iranian Church can give us […]
Life in Lebanon is becoming unbearable for many. SAT-7’s Beirut-based Communications Officer, Maria Al Khoury, shares her experience of the crisis that has engulfed her homeland and how by God’s grace, SAT-7 is continuing to broadcast hope. Lebanon is passing through one of the most complex and tough economic crises in the world. Every area of daily life for Lebanese people is affected, and in […]
