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An old, broken bicycle gave Francis Kinnon an idea: Repair unwanted bicycles and donate them to health care workers in the community. A member of the steering committee at Church on the Corner, a Nazarene church near Blackpool, England, Kinnon has been out of work due to stay-at-home orders. [...]

Nazarenes in Germany invite runners anywhere in the world to join them in a “decentralized jog-a-thon” 17 May to raise tuition funds for the Nazarene Evangelical School in Beirut, Lebanon. Gelnhausen and Berlin, Germany, have been the sites of Nazarene-organized jog-a-thons since 1986. Usually held in May or June, [...]

On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 Rev. Mária Gusztinné Tulipán has been elected as the 12th rector of European Nazarene College. Prior to her election, she served as pastor of the Budapest Church of the Nazarene in Hungary. She and her husband Imre were instrumental in starting the work of the Church of the [...]

In January 2020, 334 participants representing 17 countries and speaking 21 languages came together in Hyderabad, India, for the Eurasia Regional Conference called The Invisible World. This regional conference offered a rich opportunity for cross-cultural learning, as stories, perspectives, challenges, and ways to pray were shared. Through these, the way [...]

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Nazarene missionary to Albania, Steve Beiler, reports that more than 50 schools are damaged and several buildings around the Kombinant Nazarene Church, in the city of Tirana, have been declared unlivable as the result of a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the Southeast European country of Albania on 26 November. Two [...]

On 25 August, 135 people were baptized in the North District of Bangladesh. They had given their lives to Jesus after watching the JESUS film, presented by two Nazarene JESUS Film teams conducting evangelism and discipleship in the North District. During the baptism ceremony, Binoy, one of the 135, publicly [...]

The Church of the Nazarene has established its presence in a new, southeastern Eurasia Region country through a local church planter and evangelist. It is not easy for missionaries to enter this country since the government prohibits Christian evangelistic activities. So, when a citizen expressed a desire to plant Nazarene [...]

A couple years back the political situation in one of the countries on our region, forced me to make a very difficult judgement call: will I tell the missionaries to evacuate or can they stay? It would mean for our missionaries that they would have to pack their things, prepare [...]

On 19 November, Nazarene pastor Ergest Biti joined a delegation of about 100 Albanian government officials in a special state visit to the Vatican to meet the Pope. Ergest, who was ordained at the Albania District Assembly just two days before the state visit, was invited because he also holds [...]

In a small village in the state of Maharashtra, India, lives a woman of 65 years named Praryagabai. She has never been to any school and doesn't know how to read or write. But one day, Pastor Rev. Ashish Kharchan told Praryagabai the story about Jesus Christ. Upon hearing about [...]

Professional development was the focus of a two-day event hosted by South Asia Nazarene Bible College (SANBC) in Bangalore, India, in early August. The event also included two additional days for SANBC’s third Wesleyan Theology Conference, a contextualized continuation of the Global Theology Conference held in the United States in [...]

More than 400 are reported missing, nearly 400 were killed, and 1.2 million people have taken refuge at relief camps in India’s southern state of Kerala, where there are 11 Nazarene congregations. Reported as the area’s worst flood in a century, the August natural disaster was caused by the early [...]

BANGALORE, INDIA -- Twenty-four participants representing 10 different language groups from India gathered June 25 to 29 for a Manual Translation Summit to work together on translating the Church of the Nazarene denomination’s most important identity document– the Manual. Although the Church of the Nazarene has existed in India since [...]