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USA / CANADA
In mid-October 2025, the remnants of Typhoon Halong struck the coast of western Alaska, bringing hurricane-force winds, torrential rain, and storm surges up to six feet above normal high tide. At leas...
ASIA-PACIFIC
Three major earthquakes have struck the Philippines in recent weeks. On September 30, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit Cebu, a province of the Philippines. It affected more than 500,000 individuals and ...
AFRICA
The Church of the Nazarene in Zambia has significantly grown in recent years, leading delegates to the Zambia Luapula Northern District Assembly to vote to form a new district. The new district was na...
The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received from 27-31 October 2025. Jayne Almon, 63, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, pass...
MESOAMERICA
Since 1 September 2009, the Church of the Nazarene’s Global Ministry Center (GMC) proudly flies a flag each week of one of the many nations in which the denomination is present in ministry. ...
EURASIA
A team from the Arizona District traveled to Central Asia to serve alongside locals from 17-26 September 2025. The purpose of the trip was clear: to help build a floor for a new discipleship center, w...
ASIA-PACIFIC
A historic milestone was celebrated in Kholam, Shan State, Myanmar, as the Church of the Nazarene dedicated its first mission center in the Shan Pioneer Area on 4 October 2025. The event, held in conj...
MESOAMERICA
In Poza Rica and northern Veracruz, Mexico, Nazarenes have come together to serve those affected by the early October heavy rainfall. Latest reports show 64 have died and 65 others are still missing a...
SOUTH AMERICA
More than 700 Nazarenes came together for AME.25, the South America Region Conference in Cali, Colombia, from 22-24 October. The regional conference brought together pastors, leaders, and laypeople fr...
The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received from 13-17 October 2025. Diana Thornton, 81, of Chili, Wisconsin, ...
Mount Vernon Nazarene University celebrated the ribbon-cutting of the Fairbanks Center for Global Engagement on Friday, 17 October 2025, honoring President Emeritus E. LeBron Fairbanks and former Firs...
ASIA-PACIFIC
Since September 1, 2009, the Church of the Nazarene’s Global Ministry Center (GMC) proudly flies a flag each week of one of the many nations in which the denomination is present in ministry. Leaders w...