The 30-minute radio program Women of Hope began airing weekly in Arabic on Jan. 7, 2012, from TWR’s transmitter reaching Middle East countries. Project Hannah’s Arabic prayer ministry started in July 2011 with 100 intercessors and in barely six months had grown to 300 intercessors in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.

     This beautiful beginning is indeed a reason for praise! The vision for Project Hannah Arabic has always been to expand until all of countries in the Arab world receive the radio signals carrying Women of Hope. The next step is to secure funding for weekly broadcasts via our outlet reaching across North Africa (Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and more). Covering all 20-plus Arab-speaking countries across the expansive Middle Eastern and North African region involves use of multiple high-power AM transmitters. The technological tools are available. The team is in place, translating and producing programs, doing follow-up and coordinating the prayer ministry within the region.

     The need is before us: tens of millions of Arabic-speaking women facing a variety of cultural, economic and social challenges. For example, collectively, the Arab countries have one of the world’s highest illiteracy rates for women. Nearly 50 percent of women are illiterate compared with 30 percent of the men. In all but four of the Arab countries, fewer than 80 percent of girls go to secondary school. This lack of education contributes to a number of unhealthy lifestyles that result in high maternal mortality rates and higher rates of disease in general. Most of all, though, Arabic-speaking women share the universal need for forgiveness and peace, which only Jesus can give. Radio is a perfect medium to reach women who do not read, as well as those who do!

     Join us in praying for Project Hannah’s Arabic team, asking that God would continue to give its members wisdom and strength, keeping them faithful on the journey to which he has called them – reaching women across the Middle East and North Africa with the message of God’s love.

Based on excerpts from an article by N.O., Arabic ministry director