New York, NY, September 28, 2009--The United Methodist Church will commission 32 missionaries and nine deaconesses and home missioners in an October 13 celebration that will be the first such service broadcast live on the internet.
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Date posted: Sep 28, 2009

New York, NY, September 17, 2009--The United Methodist Church in Cameroon, West Africa, has a bright future, but just how bright depends upon the strength of the network of mission partnerships required to sustain a young Christian community. This is especially true in a multilingual country with a great variety of religious options.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Sep 17, 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.
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Date posted: Sep 14, 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.
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Date posted: Sep 01, 2009

São Paulo, Brazil, August 27, 2009-- Representatives of Methodist churches from across Latin America and the Caribbean gathered at the Methodist University of São Paulo, August 17-21, to celebrate 40 years of collaboration in ministry.
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Date posted: Aug 27, 2009

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.
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Date posted: Aug 19, 2009

Tallinn, Estonia--The 15th anniversary of the largest United Methodist theological seminary in Europe was marked by the installation of a new president and an espiscopal address linking the role of theological schools to the practice of Christian mission.
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Date posted: Aug 17, 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.
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Date posted: Jul 28, 2009

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: Evangelization and Church Growth
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Date posted: Jul 22, 2009

Moscow, July 7, 2007--United Methodists across Eurasia are more interested in church development than in complaining about the economic shortages, according to Bishop Hans Växby, as he completes the round of 2009 annual conferences.
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Date posted: Jul 07, 2009

(From www.minnesotaumc.org) At annual conference session in May, I asked, “Why did the United Methodist cross the road?” The answer is based on the old why-did- the-chicken-cross-the-road jokes: to get to the other side. But why would United Methodists want to get to the other side? Because Jesus is always crossing the road to the other side, where our neighbor is.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jul 06, 2009

New York, NY, July 6, 2009--United Methodists in Nepal request that church members worldwide join them and other Nepalese Christians in praying for peace and safety in the face of intimidation and acts of anti-Christian violence.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jul 06, 2009

New York, NY, June 29, 2009--United Methodist mission leaders report that all personnel in Honduras are safe and congregations relatively unaffected by the military ouster of President Manuel Zelaya of the Central American country on Sunday, June 28.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Jun 29, 2009

New York, NY, June 25, 2009--The 100th anniversary of Methodism in Russia was celebrated in St. Petersburg in an ecumenical service of worship in mid-June. The occasion also marked the 130th year since Methodism arrived in what was then Czarist Russia, in the region that is today the Baltic countries.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jun 25, 2009

New York, NY, June 15, 2009--The ecumenical Week of Peace in Palestine-Israel coincided with a cover story in a major general magazine on an issue of deep concern to some Christians: the declining number of Christians in the Holy Land.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jun 15, 2009

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.
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Date posted: Jun 08, 2009

Monrovia, Liberia, June 2, 2009—Twenty-six voices rang out amidst clapping, dancing, and celebration: "We are one in Jesus. We are together. We are one."
Source: Women's Division
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Date posted: Jun 03, 2009

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.
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Date posted: May 29, 2009