Global Health News & Stories

Global Health partners with Engineers in Action to bring clean water and sanitation facilities to schools, churches and whole communities.

A new program in Phnom Penh helps people stay out of human trafficking networks.

Sheltering in Love grant campaign receives nearly $2 million in donations; expedited grant awards given to nonprofits in 43 countries and 43 states

Methodism was planted and took root 100-years ago among the Otetela-speaking people of Tunda in Eastern Congo. This year, United Methodists there completed construction of a new hospital.

Global Ministries staff participated in the development of the declaration on vaccine equity and the agency supports its call for worldwide distribution and accessibility of the COVID-19 vaccine.

As cases surge in places like India and Brazil, Global Ministries and UMCOR continue to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through health and humanitarian efforts.

The Imagine No Malaria program partners with United Methodist health ministries in some of the most affected and least resourced populations on earth to stop this parasitic disease from claiming more human life.

In his semi-annual report to Global Ministries’ board of directors, general secretary Roland Fernandes outlined mission challenges and opportunities facing the global church.

A devotion for Good Friday by Jean Claude Masuka Maleka and Francine Ilunga Mpanga Mufuk

UMCOR and Global Health strive to connect more communities with access to clean water and healthy sanitation facilities around the world.

In Liberia, a United Methodist primary health-care clinic provides a life-saving diagnosis and medication that other health facilities missed.

The United Methodist Abundant Health Initiative reaches and exceeds its 1 million children goal…and keeps going.