United Methodist News Service – Recent Articles

• Women clergy extend hand to patients, prisoners
  Amid COVID-19 pandemic, female pastors in Nigeria bring gifts, messages of hope to two clinics and a prison in Karim Lamido.
• Seeing removal of statues as ‘doing no harm’
  United Methodists in Virginia and North Carolina are among those calling for Confederate monuments to be moved away from public spaces.
• Daniel Rodríguez left legacy of servant leadership
  In a 50-year ministry career, the Rev. Daniel Z. Rodríguez advocated for justice and helped ensure that The United Methodist Church served Hispanic/Latino and ethnic communities.
• Deaf ministries navigate COVID-19 challenges
  Pandemic has meant more online services in American Sign Language, but masks and isolation are a challenge for Deaf and hard of hearing.
• Africans rely on survival skills to fight COVID-19
  Many rural communities in Zimbabwe are using age-old practices to stay healthy and stop the spread of the coronavirus.
• Africa University shifts fall semester online
  Despite the move to distance learning, the United Methodist university celebrated a new student union, dormitory and expanded dining hall, funded by a gift from Dallas’ Highland Park United Methodist Church.
• 2020 Michigan Annual Conference
  July 26-28, online.
• Meharry faces off with COVID-19
  From testing to research to serving on the frontlines, Meharry doctors, students and alumni are fighting to overcome pandemic.
• Korean peninsula and 'Amazing Grace with Peace'
  A Korean-American high school student writes about her grandfather's longing to meet his family in North Korea and how that inspires her to work for the peace movement.
• Dangerous combination: Virus, poverty, immigration
  It is imperative that the church inform and educate its membership with regard to the vulnerability of the immigrants within our communities, writes a United Methodist clergyman.