Source: International Mission Board, May 21, 2018<\/p>\n
Every day thirty-four thousand people flee their homes to escape famine, poverty, and war. Every day thousands of families become refugees. But those are just numbers. And numbers don\u2019t move us. Real stories of real people do. That\u2019s why Human Flow<\/a>, an epic documentary by the provocative Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei, is so powerful and so important.<\/p>\n The scale and devastation of the global refugee crisis is expansive, but Weiwei is an able guide, taking viewers around the world and introducing us to real people\u2014real image-bearers of God\u2014along the way. He doesn\u2019t focus on the causes of the crisis; rather, he offers a compelling and compassionate window into a world of deep suffering.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing a refugee is much more than a political status. It is the most perverse kind of cruelty that can be exercised against a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n The film takes viewers through twenty-three countries, asking us to witness the suffering that forces people to flee their homelands.<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a> or watch the video<\/a>, available through a variety of streaming services.<\/p>\n \u00bb While a record number of the earth\u2019s inhabitants are on the move, many former nomads are settling down to give their children a better life. Read about or watch a documentary on The Last Nomads of Morocco<\/a> (Al Jazeera).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: International Mission Board, May 21, 2018 Every day thirty-four thousand people flee their homes to escape famine, poverty, and war. Every day thousands of families become refugees. But those are just numbers. And numbers don\u2019t move us. Real stories of real people do. That\u2019s why Human Flow, an epic documentary by the provocative Chinese … Continue reading WORLD: Meet Real People Caught Up in the Refugee Crisis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7930,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions\/7930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}