An outbreak of tornadoes plowed through five states on 10 December, killing dozens and leaving thousands without water, heat, or electricity. The First Church of the Nazarene in Mayfield, Kentucky, served as a storm shelter the night of the tornadoes and has since become a Red Cross shelter for residents impacted by the storm.
2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Church of the Nazarene’s presence in the Middle East, which began in Palestine and Syria in 1921. Their early roots of compassion are still alive and well today.
Staff at Nazarene child development centers in Sri Lanka have been going above and beyond to help care for their students during the pandemic.
A team of seven volunteers from across the Mesoamerica Region traveled to the South and Grand-Anse districts in Haiti, the two places hit the hardest by the 14 August earthquake, to provide aid and support to the recovery efforts.
Hurricane Ida made landfall in the United States on 29 August, causing flooding, death, and destruction from Louisiana, and later into New York and New Jersey.
Haiti is still reeling after the 7.2-magnitude quake on August 14. An estimated 2,207 people were killed, more than 12,000 were injured, and tens of thousands are without homes.
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake shook Haiti on Saturday morning, causing substantial destruction. The Church of the Nazarene has four districts in the area near the epicenter, two of which are known to have sustained significant damage.
In August 2020, a massive explosion devastated the port of Beirut in Lebanon, killing more than 200 people, injuring thousands, and displacing tens of thousands. Now, a year after the explosion, an ongoing economic crisis that started in 2019 has reached a breaking point.
The city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was rocked by a large eruption of the Nyiragongo Volcano on the night of 22 May 2021. Around 400,000 people have evacuated and about 20,000 are homeless.
Deaths due to COVID-19 in India have nearly tripled in the last three weeks and reached more than 3,600 in the last 24 hours. The true death toll is believed to be much higher.
