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

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

New York, NY, March 16, 2010--The head of the United Methodist mission agency has appealed for prayer and action to stem new outbreaks of violence among ethnic and religious groups in central Nigeria.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Mar 16, 2010

Freetown, Sierra Leone, October 6, 2009--From a site overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and Freetown, Sierra Leone, a new series of United Methodist Academies for Evangelization and Church Growth in Africa got under way in early October. Twenty pastors and lay leaders from Sierra Leone and Liberia took part.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Oct 07, 2009

A major international report released on July 10 finds that an already grim global orphan crisis is set to get much worse as more and more adults with children die from AIDS, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The report, Children on the Brink, contains the broadest and most comprehensive statistics yet on the historical, current and projected number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. It finds more than 13.4 million children have lost one or both parents to the epidemic in the three regions studied, a number that will increase to 25 million by 2010.
Source: UNAIDS
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Date posted: Jul 11, 2002

The the number of HIV infections in Eastern Europe is rising faster than anywhere else in the world. Meantime, the epidemic continues its rapid spread throughout Africa, with 3.4 million new infections and 2.3 million deaths in 2001. In Swaziland, Botswana and some areas of South Africa, more than 30% of pregnant women are HIV- positive. In West Africa, several countries with previously low infection numbers- including Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation- have now passed the 5% infection mark.
Source: UNAIDS
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Date posted: Nov 28, 2001

We thank God for giving up opportunity to serve humanity in our respective areas of specialization. Some accomplishments follow.
Source: Missionary stories
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Date posted: Oct 20, 2001