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A 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, May 12. This quake comes just two weeks after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated the country, killing more than 8,000 people and destroying entire communities. At least 39 more people have been confirmed dead and more than 1,000

“Our biggest advantage to being a small organization as Nazarene Compassionate Ministries: We are very fast and very flexible,” said Jörg Eich, Eurasia Region NCM coordinator in a debriefing the day after NCM Nepal team members carried more than 300 bags of rice to the village of Tindhara where

“We are in the wilderness. We are unable to die. We are unable to live,” said a young woman in Tindhara, Nepal, a small community east of Kathmandu. Tindhara is in the Sindhupalchok district, where almost half of the casualties occurred following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country

When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, it was a Saturday. In Nepal, that’s the day when Christians gather to worship. That meant that most churches were full when the ground began to violently shake beneath their feet. Prakash, the pastor of the Nazarene church outside Kathmandu,

Oliver Phillips, pastor of the Lake Como, Florida, Connexions Church of the Nazarene and director of the Connexion Empowerment Center Inc., shared the following story about a new initiative on the Florida District to provide shelter for unaccompanied minors: It all began with a get-acquainted lunch

The MINCODIS Project, a ministry of the Peru Northeast District, recently received 13 wheelchairs and other equipment donated to children with disabilities. The Ministerio Infantil de Compasión Distrital (District Children’s Compassionate Ministry) Project began three years ago when Peru Northeast

Fiji District team leaders were praying and searching for a compassionate ministry project to reach local residents when an idea dawned on them in the beginning of 2014. At the time, the Fiji government was exploring ways to manage poverty, particularly with regard to assisting those who were

Church of the Nazarene Pastor James Fullah of Sierra Leone and his family were declared Ebola-free after completing 21 days of quarantine. James, his five children, and seven other family members were placed in quarantine after James' wife, Isatu, passed away in February from the Ebola virus. Two of

Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma called for a three-day lockdown in the country as an effort to curb the spread of the Ebola virus. Citizens have been told to stay inside March 27 to 29 and from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the following three Saturdays: April 4, 11, and 18. Vidal Cole, the Nazarene

Those who have been potentially exposed to the Ebola virus spend 21 days in quarantine to eliminate the risk of infecting others. If no symptoms show after those three weeks in isolation, the person is free to return to normal life. But many find that life after quarantine is far from normal.