{"id":6780,"date":"2015-10-27T13:19:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2015-10-27T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:31:56","slug":"bringing-media-spotlight-to-the-saharawi-refugees-in-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2015\/10\/bringing-media-spotlight-to-the-saharawi-refugees-in-algeria.html","title":{"rendered":"Bringing media spotlight to the Sahrawi refugees in Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ccYhQc6BNLo<\/p>\n<div>Trailer for the 2012 documentary <em>Sons of the Clouds<\/em>, produced by actor Javier Bardem<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1445958768106_7566\"><strong>A story the media overlooks. <\/strong>It&#8217;s understandable. There are certainly flashier stories out there. But, still this deserves notice.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>My friend Andy Huddleston of <a href=\"http:\/\/missionenablersintl.org\/about.php#jump\">Mission Enablers International<\/a> asked me to help bring awareness to the plight situation faced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sahrawi_refugee_camps\">Sahrawi refugees in Algeria<\/a> which he describes as\u00a0one of the most abused refugee situations in the world. You can also learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notforgotteninternational.org\/\">NotForgottenInternational.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1445958768106_7566\"><\/div>\n<div><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em><strong>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ccYhQc6BNLo Trailer for the 2012 documentary Sons of the Clouds, produced by actor Javier Bardem A story the media overlooks. It&#8217;s understandable. There are certainly flashier stories out there. But, still this deserves notice.\u00a0 My friend Andy Huddleston of Mission Enablers International asked me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,1591,17,24,1],"tags":[35,3694,8831,8833,8834,8830],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-current-events","category-good-works","category-interfaith-dialogue","category-movies","category-uncategorized","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-andy-huddleston","tag-mission-enablers-international","tag-notforgotteninternational-org","tag-sahrawi-refugees-in-algeria","tag-sons-of-the-clouds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bringing media spotlight to the Sahrawi refugees in Algeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2015\/10\/bringing-media-spotlight-to-the-saharawi-refugees-in-algeria.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bringing media spotlight to the Sahrawi refugees in Algeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ccYhQc6BNLo Trailer for the 2012 documentary Sons of the Clouds, produced by actor Javier Bardem A story the media overlooks. 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