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Every day SAT-7 ARABIC broadcasts text messages received from viewers. Most of these messages are in Arabic, but the also arrive in English and French. After receiving a message, SAT-7 reviews it and then adds it to a crawl on the bottom of the screen. This is now a popular feature of many other Arabic TV stations, and viewers often text personal messages to friends who may be watching. These TV stations usually charge for this service. SAT-7 provides the text crawl free of charge, and many of the messages carried on the screen are prayer requests in which the writers are asking the entire SAT-7 audience to pray for their needs.

SAT-7 viewers living in Iraq send text messages asking for urgent prayer for violence in Mosul to stop.

According to published reports, at least seven Iraqi Christians have been killed in recent days and as many as 3,000 Iraqi Christians have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul due to severe pressure from extremists. Other reports have stated that Christian homes have been bombed and leaflets passed around threatening Christians with death unless they convert to Islam or pay a jizya tax that marks them as second-class citizens.

An uninhibited thirst for knowledge is the single most common characteristic of children across all nations and generations. "Why is That?" is a program dedicated to answering all kinds of questions we receive from our young viewers, mainly between the age of 7 and 14. The program is hosted by Essam Nagy from Egypt, as the amicable character of "Abul 'Urreef" – loosely translated into 'Mr Know' – who is widely known and loved from the popular children's show, "As-Sanabel."