December 25, 2000, the first Christian TV channel in the CIS, the cable channel CNL (New Life Channel�) in Almaty, Kazakhstan � the first Christian TV channel in the former Soviet Union. In Almaty CNL reaches 400 thousand viewers and broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We were encouraged by the wide range of responses to the broadcast and could see that there was a great thirst for the word of God. Thus we identified the need for Christian programming in the Russian language.
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