{"id":9817,"date":"2021-01-20T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=9817"},"modified":"2021-01-20T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:24:21","slug":"middle-east-christian-tv-touching-more-people-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=9817","title":{"rendered":"Middle East: Christian TV Touching More People Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: SAT-7, January 11, 2021<\/p>\n<p>While 2020 was an extraordinarily hard year for many, it was also a year in which God was on the move in extraordinary ways. Soaring audience engagement (up to 30% overall growth) with SAT-7 channels showed that amid COVID-19, the hope of Christ shared through television touched more people than ever in the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The growth in engagement was especially marked for the channels that serve Arabic-speaking children and Turkish viewers, as well as SAT-7 ACADEMY education programs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Audience engagement for SAT-7 KIDS climbed by 90 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Contacts for the Turkish channel, SAT-7 T\u00dcRK, rose 120 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Audience engagement for SAT-7 ACADEMY soared by 328 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Between January and September 2020, SAT-7 received 310,000 audience engagements in total, almost a third more than during the same period in 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sat7usa.org\/2020-record-viewer-responses\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.sat7usa.org\/2020-record-viewer-responses\/\">Read full story<\/a>. We\u2019re hearing reports like this from other media ministries, too. Praise God.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Also read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianheadlines.com\/blog\/hymn-database-sees-spike-as-christians-worship-at-home-in-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.christianheadlines.com\/blog\/hymn-database-sees-spike-as-christians-worship-at-home-in-2020.html\">Hymn Database Sees Spike as Christians Worship at Home in 2020<\/a> (Religion News Service, via Christian Headlines).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: SAT-7, January 11, 2021 While 2020 was an extraordinarily hard year for many, it was also a year in which God was on the move in extraordinary ways. Soaring audience engagement (up to 30% overall growth) with SAT-7 channels showed that amid COVID-19, the hope of Christ shared through television touched more people than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=9817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Middle East: Christian TV Touching More People Than Ever<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9818,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions\/9818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}