Disheveled children of every age and size crowded around our vehicle as it ground to a stop in front of the United Methodist Mpasa Reference Health Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was in this sprawling suburb of Kinshasa, DR Congo, that I was to assess health facilities for the Central Congo Conference. Dr. Rebecca Yohadi, the conference's Chief Medical Officer, told me that the Mpasa suburb sprang up in 1998 near a military installation as a camp for displaced persons and refugees.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Conflict | Health | Hunger | Poverty | Violence | Women | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Congo DR |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

New York, NY, September 14, 2009--Christian institutions in Pakistan continue to carry out their work and witness despite a series of attacks on churches and communities, according to a Pakistani Protestant leader.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Sep 14, 2009

New York, NY, September 4, 2009--Two top mission leaders of The United Methodist Church are appealing to the government of Pakistan to take measures to ensure the safety of a Christian minority under violent attack in some parts of the officially Islamic nation.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Sep 04, 2009

London, September 1, 2009--The island nation of Fiji has been suspended from the British Commonwealth for refusing to move toward democratic elections next year, according to a report by the BBC on September 1. The Fijian political situation is of importance to the international Methodist community because the Methodist Church there is also at odds with the government.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Sep 01, 2009

Evanston, Illinois, August 1, 2009--A renewed emphasis on evangelism and new church development is taking place across the global United Methodist Church.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Aug 01, 2009

New York, NY, July 28, 2009--The arrests of Methodist church leaders in Fiji and the cancellation by the government of the annual church conference in the island nation are raising concerns within the international Methodist family.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Jul 28, 2009

New York, NY, April 9, 2009--The first Arab Christian university in Israel, slated for Nazareth, has numerous Methodist connections, including United Methodist mission ties.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Apr 09, 2009

New York, NY, March 23, 2009--A 19-member mission travel group is safely back in the United States after civil strife in Yei, Sudan, disrupted their study tour.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Conflict | Economy | GBGM news | Human rights | Hunger | Justice | Poverty | Refugees | Violence | War | Mission studies | Sudan |
Date posted: Mar 24, 2009

January 23, 2009--The first of ten children born to rubber plantation workers, I was brought up in very modest circumstances.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Conflict | Education | Global connections | Globalization | Health | Hunger | Newsletters | Peace | Poverty | Violence | War | Water | Youth | Advance | Liberia |
Date posted: Jan 22, 2009

January 9, 2009--“Cosa?!” [What?!] “Che e successo!?” [What happened?!] One of the teenagers from Ghana got a call on his cellphone on the way home from a church confirmation trip. His 19-year-old friend, Abdul, had been killed in Milan. Over the course of several phone calls and articles in the morning’s paper, the details began to emerge.
Source: Mission Education
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Date posted: Jan 09, 2009

New York, NY, December 12, 2008--Recent grants from the General Board of Global Ministries underscore the United Methodist commitment to peace and justice in the Holy Land.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Dec 16, 2008

The China News Summary is compiled monthly by the United Methodist China Program, Room 1335, General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115
Source: Mission Contexts and Relationships
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Date posted: Dec 09, 2008

New York, NY, Oct. 7, 2008--The United Methodist Church in Angola played an active role in promoting citizen participation in the early September parliamentary election, the first since 1992 in the long-conflicted former Portuguese colony.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Civil rights | Conflict | Global connections | Human rights | Justice | United Methodist Church | Statements | Angola |
Date posted: Oct 07, 2008

Sept. 11, 2008, NEW YORK (UMNS)--United Methodists are expressing frustration over not being able to provide disaster relief to Cubans hit hard by the 2008 hurricane season.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Conflict | Emergencies | International affairs | Natural disasters | UMCOR | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Cuba |
Date posted: Sep 12, 2008

With tears in his eyes, Bishop Juan Cardona said to me, "Lu, I don't know what you did with the people of the town, but for three years we have been having recreational activities with the children, bringing psychologists, clowns, etc., and we were never able to make them smile. When I arrived, I saw the people's happiness and I couldn't understand what was happening when today all the people laughed!"
Source: Mission Education
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Date posted: Sep 05, 2008