Did you know that there are currently 26 million displaced persons in at least 52 countries as a result of conflict?Refugee Sunday is a unique opportunity to pray and support the refugees and to raise awareness for the situation of refugees and internally displaced peoples around the world.
Refugees are the people forced to flee their country because they have been persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group.
In Namibia Osire is a refugee camp in central Namibia, situated 200 km north of the capital Windhoek on the main road C30 from Gobabis to Otjiwarongo. Established in 1992 the refugee population of Osire stood at 6.500 in 2010 after having reached a peak of 20.000 in 1998. The majority of the refugees came from Angola, and a size-able portion from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Let us intercede for more than 26 million people in the world, who have no place to call home. Persecution and terror have forced these refugees and internally displaced persons to flee, leaving everything behind. Put yourself in their shoes. They have lost family members, friends, possessions and the familiar places of their homeland.
I was a stranger and you welcomed me! …Truly I tell you, just as you did it to the least of my brethren you did it to me. Matthew 25:35,40
Photo taken at Osire Camp during Global Day of Prayer.
Additional information at website: www.refugeehighway.net
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