This September, millions of children will return to classrooms across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Millions more will not. From war-damaged schools in Sudan, Gaza and Lebanon to classrooms forbidden to girls in Afghanistan, SAT-7 is helping children hold on to learning. And to hope.

Nearly half of the 20 countries where Christians face the world’s most extreme persecution are within SAT-7’s ministry region across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the country remains the only place in the world where girls and women are barred from secondary and higher education.

The faith passed down by Farid from Afghanistan survived persecution, danger, exile and even the murder of his own son.

As conflict, poverty and persecution continue to force people to flee their homelands in the Middle East and North Africa, we share the story of an inspiring Afghan family who have not allowed their perilous journey to be defined by dread…

A pioneering SAT-7 PARS social media program is creating a “vision of a thriving Afghan Church” using virtual production technology thanks to a highly selective grant awarded to innovative projects around the world.

As restrictions on women’s rights and religious freedom intensify in Afghanistan, an innovative social media program is giving a platform to silenced voices and offering an “encounter with Jesus” to a people in desperate need of peace.