All SAT-7 members from around the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and further afield have joined together in a Christmas carol music video to highlight how believers in the region are silenced and unable to celebrate Jesus’ birth.

Voices from across the region, working to defend freedoms, and looking at our work as the Body of Christ were key highlights of SAT-7’s 2022 European Vision meeting, which took place in Copenhagen last week.

SAT-7 was awarded the International Media award at the NRB (National Religious Broadcasters) Christian Media Convention in Dallas, Texas this week. SAT-7 CEO Rita El-Mounayer and Founder and President Dr Terence Ascott were present at the conference, where Ms El-Mounayer movingly dedicated the award to the Middle Eastern believers who make and watch SAT-7’s programs.

A veteran Christian media pioneer who lived through rocket attacks and car bombings in war-torn Beirut, Lebanon, says Christians in the Middle East have never been more willing to risk everything to put their faith on display.

On the eve of the ceasefire in the Holy Land, SAT-7 ARABIC’s program You are Not Alone dedicated a special episode to those living in what the UN Secretary General described as “hell on earth” and asked viewers for their support in prayer.

The SAT-7 ARABIC program Important to be Christian has aired a special episode from inside the Heart of Jesus hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. The crew filmed Pastor Ramzi Jreij as he prayed outside three of the hospital’s wards, bringing God’s Word into moments of isolation, fear, and pain in an episode described by viewers as “full of hope”.

As many countries face a new surge of COVID-19, SAT-7’s special Easter programming in Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish helps viewers find new hope and life at the foot of the Cross.

Young SAT-7 KIDS Presenter Markus Kashouh reflects on how the Beirut Port explosion has affected him and his friends, how his faith helped him through, and how he hopes to help SAT-7 KIDS viewers build this same resilience through his new program By The Way.