Thomas Kemper letter: Dear Friends, Please join me in praying for our brothers and sisters in Senegal. They are facing political violence as they prepare for coming elections scheduled for this Sunday. According to Global Ministries national in mission, Aly Bashir, 20 people have died, hundreds have been injured, and hundreds more arrested.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Feb 23, 2012

Tola Seng lives in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia in Southeast Asia. As a child, she experienced the aftermath of a harsh and violent regime that killed much of Cambodia's population. "Twenty-four years ago," Seng says, "I was born to a single mother in a refugee camp on the Thai border. By God's grace, my mother was able to raise my sisters and me on her own. Yet, watching her struggle to support us, I wanted to grow up faster so I could find a job and help her."
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Jan 30, 2012

Dear Friends, Please join me in praying for our brothers and sisters in Nigeria. In recent weeks, Christians have been targeted and killed by Boko Haram, a religious extremist group in northern Nigeria. Hundreds more have fled the region in fear. Societal, religious, and economic imbalance is creating a volatile climate, despite calls for peaceful resolutions.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jan 18, 2012

The East Belfast Mission is pitching its tent. The community center, Skainos, an ancient Greek word meaning tent, is being built by missionaries, staff, volunteers, and community members of Ballymacarret in Northern Ireland. All people will be welcome in this East Belfast building which will offer space for outreach groups and individuals seeking healing and transformation.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Nov 04, 2011

A delegation from The United Methodist Church met with the Foreign Minister and other leaders of Côte d'Ivoire to explore areas of common interest as the West African country recovers from a post-electoral crisis earlier this year. Bishop Weaver of New England led the delegation and later said he was encouraged by the meeting and emphasized the role of the church as a global organization.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Sep 22, 2011

This coming Saturday will mark 10 years of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The reactions that followed this event radically changed our world and the context of Mission. As we take time together to reflect and pray we are mindful of other instances of violence, including the recent shootings in Norway and all the places and people in the world who suffer violence in this very hour.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Sep 09, 2011

I first met Dan Terry in 2004 in Afghanistan. One day he offered to help me get to a meeting on the other side of Kabul--by bicycle. We took a "shortcut" up to a steep ridge, following a rocky path where we had to push or carry our bicycles. At the top, while I caught my breath and admired the view, we encountered a family of returned refugees. This steep ridge--far from roads, water, and the city proper--was the only place this family could find to live.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Aug 24, 2011

Rose, a 14-year-old orphan in the DR Congo, never had the opportunity to attend school. When her parents died, she went to live with her widowed grandmother. When her grandmother proved unable to support her, Rose had to marry young.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Aug 18, 2011

Even as you read these words, the people of Southern Sudan are opening their eyes to a new reality: independence. This July, we welcome them as citizens of the world's newest nation and as partners in the pursuit of global peace and development. On July 9, 2011, the independent government of Southern Sudan is to be formally constituted. Earlier this year, the Southern electorate voted overwhelmingly to secede from the Republic of the Sudan.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Jul 22, 2011

Gaza is like a prison in many ways, surrounded by high walls on three sides. Gun towers oversee the free-fire stretch of scorched earth and rubble, warning anyone--including farmers who once tilled the land--against getting close. On the fourth side, the west, the Mediterranean inexorably draws the eye to the horizon; but it, too, is forbidden.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Jul 07, 2011

Please join me in praying for our brothers and sisters in Nigeria. In the days following the April 16 election, violence broke out across the country, particularly in the Kano/Bauchi District, leaving more than 800 people dead and 65,000 people displaced.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jun 14, 2011

With praise, song, dancing, and prayer, more than 400 pastors and laity gathered for the third annual meeting of the Vietnam United Methodist Mission in Ho Chi Minh City. Bishop Bruce Ough, resident bishop of the West Ohio Annual Conference presided over the meeting.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Apr 28, 2011

When we pray for those who wrong us, we transform ourselves and become clearer channels for God's power, through which we can promote peace with justice in the world.
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Date posted: Apr 14, 2011

In the Middle East and North Africa, millions of men and women, young and old, Muslims and Christians, rich and poor, have recently hit the streets to call on their leaders to step down and demand the end of corrupt regimes. President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia was the first head of state to go.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Apr 06, 2011

Twenty years ago, Karen and I had a dream that has now become reality. The Lord laid on our hearts a vision of bringing The United Methodist Church to Vietnam. Having experienced Methodism in the United States, we wanted to take The United Methodist Church to the Vietnamese people in our homeland.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Mar 24, 2011

Last year, two Cambodian pastors--Svay Youthearoath and Sok Sovandy--left for Singapore to pursue Master of Divinity degrees at Trinity Theological College. This was a milestone in the history of the Methodist Mission in Cambodia (MMC).
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Mar 24, 2011

This is a fateful week for southern Sudan, where a referendum is under way on the political future of the region. The issue is whether South Sudan will become a separate nation from the northern and western parts of the country.
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Date posted: Jan 13, 2011

Public celebration of Christmas--public testament of faith in Jesus Christ--is not always easy, or even safe. As we move into a new year, my prayer list includes persons and situations in which Christian brothers and sisters lost their lives in recent days because of their faith, or where a public official was killed for trying to protect religious rights of Christians.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jan 07, 2011

October 29, 2010--On October 31, 2000, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325, dubbed "Women, Peace, and Security." This week, to celebrate ten years since the resolution's passage, hundreds of global citizens gathered with United Methodist Women at the Church Center for the United Nations (CCUN) to strategize on new and creative ways to hold governments accountable for the resolution's implementation.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Oct 29, 2010

Budapest, Hungary, August 23, 2010--Methodism on the European continent in the 20 years following World War II was the theme of a mid- August conference of the European Historical Commision of The United Methodist Church.
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Date posted: Aug 23, 2010

New York, NY, August 10, 2010--Dan Terry, killed along with nine other medical and relief workers in Afghanistan on August 6, was remembered as a peacemaker in a service of prayer and thanksgiving for his life at the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Aug 10, 2010

People were gathered in Kampala, Uganda, as they were all over the world, to watch and celebrate the final game of the World Cup, when three bombs created mayhem. The bombings in a suburb, a restaurant, and a rugby field killed at least 74 and injured at least 71. Included in the list of reported deaths was Pastor Peter Mutabazi of the Bwaise Pentecostal Church, a small United Methodist church that serves the poorest of the poor in Kampala.
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Date posted: Jul 14, 2010

The Rev. Dr. Romeo del Rosario is a United Methodist missionary currently serving as country director for the United Methodist Mission in Cambodia, where he also serves as a district superintendent and a professor at the Cambodia Methodist Bible School.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Jun 01, 2010