International (MNN) — Did you know that there are over 42-million refugees around the world? The numbers threaten to overwhelm and often fade into background noise. But SAT-7, a Christian satellite television ministry to the Middle East and North Africa, recently highlighted World Refugee Day by sharing the stories and prayers of Sudanese refugees living in Egypt. SAT-7 recently ran a campaign for World Refugee Day that highlighted the stories and prayers of Sudanese refugees living in Egypt.
The satellite television ministry to the Middle East and North Africa produces programs and movies in Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish.
Continuously creating content, they aimed to demonstrate that displaced people also have a voice in this matter. They aimed to reach out to refugees so that they could share their stories honestly and give a voice to the voiceless.
“As Christians, we also want to be passionate and have a heart, a soft heart, for those whom God has a soft heart for too, and cares for those who are traveling, who are aliens, who are displaced,” says Joe Willey with SAT-7.
In the footprint of the SAT-7 satellite broadcast, Sudan has had a major humanitarian crisis since 2023.
“We have stories of people who have fled,” says Joe Willey. “They fled on foot, they fled without anything, and tried to get to Egypt in this particular case. And so we are highlighting those stories with compassion and care to show people that the refugees, whether they’re from Sudan or somewhere else, are made in the image of God and should be cared for with the same compassion that we do our friends and our family who are also made in the image of God.”
One of the videos asked Sudanese displaced people how they felt about being called a refugee.
One woman said, Refugee means being alone. One man said, the word refugee makes a man feel humiliated. You feel a sense of loss. Something inside you is missing.
Joe Willey urges people to think about how they would feel with a label like this.
“Living through everything that perhaps you owned, perhaps you hoped for, perhaps you worked for, is gone because you have to leave, and you have to leave on foot. So it reframed the way I speak about it or consider people.
Sat-7 works to raise awareness. It is the voice for people who have no other options, and it is a Christian voice.
In the region where SAT-7 is working, only four percent are Christian, and they are doing the work of bringing light to the stories of suffering in that area.
Please pray for those in the world who are suffering. Consider how you may respond or react in a similar event, and what your needs would be in that circumstance?
Most importantly, pray that the people who see the programs will believe in Jesus Christ and that their lives will be transformed. Pray that God will use SAT-7 to soften hearts and bring people to Himself.
Header photo courtesy of SAT-7 on Facebook.