When Pedram* found out the tragic news that his sister in Iran had been shot and killed by an armed robber, he found himself depressed and living in constant fear. “My sister was only twenty-seven years old when a burglar shot her in a jewellery shop. I wept and grieved by her grave for forty days.”

As the Christian community in the Middle East is increasingly under threat, the question of how believers should respond to violence becomes more and more a topic of conversation.

"Following the several attacks on the Christian community in Egypt over the past few months, this visit is very important to all Egyptians," says George Makeen, Program Director of SAT-7’s Arabic Channels.

Michel Aoun is the only Christian president in the MENA region, and this week he gave a clear message about his faith in an exclusive interview on SAT-7.

Music has often been a way to bring people together of different ethnicities and backgrounds.