SAT-7 will release a string of new programmes for children and young people across all four of the network’s channels this year. From worship songs and storytelling to lifestyle advice and inter-generational learning, our fresh content will help young viewers to learn more about Jesus and how to live for Him. On SAT-7 KIDS, for children in the Arab World, […]
This week was World Mental Health Day (10 October), and as cases of depression increase in the Middle East, SAT-7’s viewer support teams are on hand to offer advice, prayer, and professional help. Marianne Awaraji, SAT-7 ARABIC’s Audience Relations Manager, said that depression has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic. “This resulted in increased domestic violence, isolation, and […]
“This story is a microcosm of a world of injustice and wrong that is perpetrated against the girls and women of my nation.” As we mark one year since the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in Iran, SAT-7 presents the true story of an Iranian woman that highlights the mistreatment and suffering of women and girls in the country. **This […]
This summer young Christians from across Türkiye had the opportunity to encounter God in a new way and make new friends as they travelled to Smyrna, Western Türkiye, for the annual Youth Revival festival, sponsored by SAT-7 TÜRK. Hopes were high among the festival’s organisers that it would mark a significant shift for attendees between the first half of the […]
Yunus, 26, recently joined SAT-7 TÜRK’s viewer support team, where he helps and encourages young Turkish viewers in their faith. But he didn’t always know Jesus. Here, he shares his story – from guilt and shame, to being empowered to worship through music and answer the questions of others. “Like the millions around me, I had no idea that Christianity […]
Syrian refugees Fayez and Souha and Lebanese teenager Anthony tell SAT-7 how friendships have overcome prejudice and made a world of difference in their lives. “When we first met, we had a fight, but what matters now is that we became buddies and best friends.” Teenagers Fayez Farah (16) and Anthony Ghanem (15), from Syria and Lebanon respectively, both participated […]
SAT-7 has launched a new project designed to equip and encourage young people in Egypt to invest themselves in their local communities and wider society and to promote the social conditions that will enhance their freedoms. The five-year project, Youth for an Enabling Society (YES), will focus on developing social cohesion among youth aged 18-24, and between them and the rest of […]
Government ministers and civil society leaders in Lebanon have praised a SAT-7 project that brought together 14-24-year-olds from different faiths and nationalities in a country that has deep religious, racial and political divisions. Information Minister Ziyad Makary was visibly moved as he heard how the young people overcame barriers of prejudice to form understanding and friendship through the Lebanon, Our […]
Civic and religious leaders and government ministers gathered at SAT-7’s Lebanon studios on Thursday 9 February for an event to mark the publication of a very special book. It comprises moving stories that young people of different faiths, nationalities and races told at Storytelling Clubs that formed part of SAT-7’s social cohesion project, Lebanon, Our Story (LOS). The book, also […]
These are worrying times for young people in Türkiye. Inflation hit a peak of 85.5 per cent in October and at least one in five young adults have no work to go to. Many are unhappy and concerned about the future: how to get a place at university, how to find work and earn a reasonable living. Türkiye’s young people […]