signs of life in Iraq

There are signs of the Lord’s work emerging from Iraq in unexpected and wonderful ways — through radio and television!

Iraq: Kurdish Christians start radio station

In May the Kurdish government of Iraq gave permission for a Christian radio station to officially begin broadcast operations in Kurdish and Arabic. The establishment of such a station owned and operated by Iraqi followers of Jesus Christ is really an historic development. The station’s headquarters and main broadcasting facility is located in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq, in the capital of Erbil, a city of some one million people, not far from the border with Iran. The station manager requests prayer for “the Lord’s favor to be with us and that we would make a real impact in people’s lives here.”

Source: The Joshua Fund

Iraq: One out of five Iraqis watches Christian television

Most Iraqi families spend many hours in the relative security of their homes watching satellite television. Many have turned to Christian television station SAT-7 for hope and encouragement. Data just released from a nation-wide study in Iraq found that 97% of the predominantly Muslim population has access to satellite television and that 18.8%, or 5.3 million people in that country alone (out of an estimated 2008 population of 28 million), watch SAT-7. Intermedia, the independent audience research firm which conducted the study, also provides data on such channels as Al Jazeera and BBC Arabic.

Source: Terry Ascott

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