Iranian seekers have stunned the Farsi language channel of Christian satellite TV network SAT-7 with their overwhelming response to a chat room launched on Telegram, a new secure messaging app.
SAT-7 is being inundated with 2,000 messages a day from viewers in Iran and has seen over 60,000 downloads of the Bible in whole or in part since it opened a Telegram chat room in September 2015.
A woman from Tehran wrote: ‘Hello, dear people at SAT-7. Thanks for accepting me into the Telegram group. I was very lonely in my faith and now here in this group I can talk freely about Jesus ... Thank you for introducing me to other Christian friends. I really appreciate it. God bless you.’
