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

Is your church thinking of reaching out to people in new ways? Or is your substance-abuse ministry looking to partner with people in United Methodist churches? Do you want to accompany and care for people who are struggling to overcome a chemical dependency, such as alcoholism? Is your church in ministry with people who are homeless, drug abusers, family members of substance abusers, or people in recovery?
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Date posted: Oct 03, 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

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.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Apr 14, 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

New York, NY, March 3, 2011--The United Methodist Church's chief mission leader has expressed solidarity with the Christian community in Pakistan in the wake of the assassination of the most prominent Christian in that country's government.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Mar 03, 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.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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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

Oprah Winfrey will talk with male survivors of child sexual abuse on her television show on Fridays, November 5th and 12th. The topic came to the show's attention after the television producers viewed the film, "Boys and Men Healing," a documentary to which the General Board of Global Ministries contributed funding.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Nov 05, 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.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Aug 23, 2010

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

New York, NY, January 18, 2010--Morningside Heights is a storied neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan, New York City.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jan 17, 2010

New York, NY, January 18, 2010--Dramatic civil rights photographs from the 1960s and 1970s, some never before seen publicly, are on display at The Interchurch Center in New York City. The exhibit, "Giving Voice: Unearthing the Ken Thompson Collection," shows both the heroism of the struggle and the forces of oppression that tried to block the way.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jan 17, 2010

New York, NY, December 17, 2009--The first of a series of United Methodist public conversations on ministry with the poor focused on micro-credit as a means to help people move out of poverty and "restorative justice" as a social policy with positive application to the high percentage of the poor in prison.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Dec 17, 2009