Asian/Pacific News & Stories

Global Ministries directors approve nearly $10 million in grants for mission and scholarships
In addition to the approved grants, directors allocate $9 million more from unrestricted funds for four areas of work in 2022-2023 and ratify an additional $3.8 million in previously released emergency grants.
Global Ministries to lead update on UNICEF’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort
“Love Beyond Borders” webinar slated for Feb.17, 2022
Solidarity with Church of Pakistan following attacks on clergy
The general secretary of Global Ministries sent a message of solidarity and support in the wake of an attack that killed one and injured a second pastor of the minority Christian community.
Filipino churches step up after super typhoon
Destroying lives and livelihoods, churches, houses and crops, UMCOR awards grants in response to immediate needs from December 2021's Typhoon Rai.
Sent by Jesus
This second missionary devotion preparing the way for Advent and the coming of Christ into the world is written by a missionary couple, J. and T. Park.
Global Ministries support helps South Asia partners prevent and treat COVID-19
When COVID-19 cases skyrocketed in South Asia, support made it possible for partners to mobilize, prevent and treat the virus in their local communities.
Hate is the other pandemic
In response to an increase in violence against Asian Americans in the U.S., a series of monthly webinars is creating a safe space where Asian Americans and their allies can learn about and discuss issues of racism.
Discover the growth of mission in Vietnam and Laos
Join Global Ministries and U.S. annual conference partners for an overview of United Methodist mission in Vietnam and Laos.
Building an ARK in Cambodia
A new program in Phnom Penh helps people stay out of human trafficking networks.
Displaced families in Yemen receive hope in UMCOR packages
After six years of civil war with no end in sight, thousands of Yemeni families are caught in what the United Nations describes as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today.
We learned to love our neighbors
Better crops, more income to send children to school, better health – out of all the outcomes beneficiaries of the CHAD program in Cambodia receive, they rate learning to love their neighbors as number one.
Statement on March 16 shootings in Atlanta
Global Ministries stands in solidarity with the metropolitan area’s diverse Asian American communities in this time of anxiety and anger and calls for justice and peacemaking.