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
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Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

New York, New York, October 22, 2009--The Methodist community of Italy now has its first woman president, who is assuming her duties at a time when the small church is seeking to increase it ministry among immigrants.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Oct 22, 2009

New York, NY, October 5, 2009--Bishop Roy Sano believes that God is moving through the people of the United Methodist Church in Cambodia.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Oct 05, 2009

Incidents of violence and substance abuse occur on a daily basis. There is a correlation between alcohol and violence, although there is not a direct cause and effect. Substance abuse does not cause violence, and substance abusers do not necessarily commit violent acts. By the same token, substance abuse treatment cannot cure violence.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Sep 23, 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

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

Peshawar, Pakistan, May 29, 2009--Christian leaders in the province of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan are appealing to fellow believers worldwide to join them in prayer for the "innocent" and "vulnerable" people victimized by conflicts in their region and across the country.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: May 29, 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
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Date posted: Mar 24, 2009

New York, NY, January 22, 2009--United Methodist and other church leaders in the Philippines are strongly supporting the country's chief justice in the wake of reports that efforts to impeach him are under way, presumably for upholding human rights laws.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jan 22, 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
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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

New York, NY, Oct. 2, 2008--The Methodist Church in India has called upon the president of the country to take "serious steps" to end violence against Christian minorities in several areas of India.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Oct 03, 2008