An in-depth look at the MENA region from SAT-7 personnel
September 2, 2020 by Omeed Jouyandé Pastor Farshid Fathi does not look like someone who has spent five years in an Iranian jail. I know of political dissidents who were imprisoned for their views and who emerged with the impressions that prison leaves on a person. I recall one former political prisoner who spent
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As the dust settles from the explosion that ravaged Beirut, stories of resilience, heroism, and faith flow from the city. On the SAT-7 ARABIC program You Are Not Alone, part of the channel’s #ForBeirut campaign, viewers heard from “piano lady” Mai Melki, who played on amid the chaos, a life-saving nurse, and a grieving man who
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This is Lebanon’s 9/11—a blast that destroyed city blocks, killed hundreds, injured thousands, and left behind inches of toxic dust and devastation of the soul. The August 4 warehouse explosion in Lebanon’s capital city, once called the Paris of the Middle East, was reputedly sourced in tons of stored ammonium nitrate. The estimated 3.5 magnitude
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No one would accuse us of exaggeration if we described the last few months in the U.S. as trying times. With each month, we’ve experienced a new crisis, layered on top of the one that came before. COVID-19 sickened hundreds of thousands in our country and worldwide has sadly taken many people’s lives. The government’s response,
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July 2, 2020 by Rev. Tat Stewart The COVID-19 pandemic has closed church buildings around the world, making popular the Christian saying, “The Church is not a building.” Although this is a totally new experience for Western Christians, it has long been the experience of the Church in Iran. All Farsi-speaking churches have been
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These are difficult times in the US, a disheartening, “imperfect storm” of coronavirus, pandemic shutdowns, a senseless death of a citizen due to coercive force, police brutality, and protests running amok into violent social unrest. Yet our Sovereign God is in control. Christians should care about justice for all human beings, whatever their race, gender,
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