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June 2022 5 items
New light on the path for young people
SAT-7 ARABIC is helping young people turn to God and find connection amid struggle and isolation through the third season of its New Light program.
Remembering Rev. Mehdi Dibaj, an Iranian pastor killed for his faith
The 1990s were one of the most difficult decades for Iran’s small but growing church, as several leaders were martyred for the sake of their faith and their desire to share God’s message of salvation, hope, and love. In a powerful interview on SAT-7 PARS program Insiders , Issa Dibaj spoke of the life and example of his father, the Rev. Mehdi Dibaj, as he followed in the footsteps of Christ.
New festival nurtures film-making that changes lives
Film can change the way we understand and look at life. This is the thinking behind SAT-7’s use of drama in productions like Backstage and a forthcoming TV film, Toxic , whose characters are looking for healing from the various forms of rejection and violence they have experienced . It is also one of the reasons for SAT-7’s support for a new short film competition for young Christian film-makers in Egypt and the Arab World.
SAT-7 KIDS program receives Special Mention at youth television awards
The SAT-7 KIDS team are honoured to have received a Special Mention at the 2022 Prix Jeunesse International Festival, which was held on 10-15 June in Munich, Germany . The program Story in the Attic was among the finalists in the “Fiction for Ages 11-15" category , and was a lso a finalist for the festival’s Gender Equity Prize.
SAT-7 PARS supports Afghans to find hope and freedom
Escalating restrictions on women’s freedoms, a return to repressive rule, broken promises for girls’ education, a collapsed economy, and one of the worst humanitarian crises of today's world have stripped people in Afghanistan of their hopes for the future. SAT-7 PARS is ramping up its efforts and making new connections to respond to these increasingly desperate needs.