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In the five and a half years since Syria began experiencing a complicated, brutal civil war, more than 400,000 civilians have died in the crossfire. Another 11 million have left their homes to flee violence or persecution, either displaced within the country or living as refugees outside its borders

Hurricane Matthew has left a path of devastation, moving from the Caribbean to the Carolinas. Though the hurricane was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone and has moved out to sea, the danger is far from over. Haiti, where the hurricane made landfall as a Category 4 storm, has experienced the

The community drama club’s first rehearsals in a rural village of Bulgaria were so full of hostility and arguing that one might think the real drama was offstage. Widespread conflict and mutual suspicion between Roma children and their elderly Bulgarian neighbors had been the norm until about two

College View is a newly established community in Sanniquellie in Nimba county on the Church of the Nazarene's Liberia Central District. College View became accessible in 2011 and gained its name from the Nimba County Community College, the only government-formed institution of higher education in

Liberia was ravaged by the Ebola crisis as well as civil wars over the last decades, reducing the male population. Many women must now provide for their families. In partnership with Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, the Nazarene Women's Project has been in operation since 2001. Edith N'Boyou, a

A boat motors between flooded homes on Saturday after heavy rains in the region in Hammond, Louisiana. (AP photo) A deluge of unusually heavy rains late last week caused unprecedented flooding in southern Louisiana and parts of Mississippi. At least 13 people died in the record-level floods, which

Water, sanitation, and hygiene are essential for healthy living, but in Sierra Leone and Liberia, these basics are not a given. In Sierra Leone, a 2012 survey of 28,000 water points conducted by the government’s Ministry of Water Resources showed that 52 percent of peo­ple in rural areas have no

By raising sheep, Anna Hakobyan can provide milk for her family and sell wool for income. There are six adults in Anna Hakobyan’s household, but none can find a stable job in Armenia. Every year, Anna’s husband leaves their village and travels to Russia, hoping to find work for a few months at a

The project planned for the Work & Witness teams wasn’t ready. The Sofia Ministry Center in Bulgaria had suffered repeated delays in construction. As the dates loomed for the arrival of the combined team of Nazarenes from the church in Kosova and a church in Massachusetts, USA, the groups were urged

In 2014, a half-million people in Toledo, Ohio, lost access to safe water due to a toxic algae bloom in Lake Erie, which supplied the city’s water. At that point, the East Toledo campus of Hope Community Church of the Nazarene took action. The church believes in partnership — both with the community