Asia

Mission and Ministry
Participants and facilitators of 2024 ASCEND, a global leadership development training for Methodist young adults in Asia, jump for a photo at Hope Vocational School in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Nov. 4. Photo by the Rev. Thomas E. Kim, UM News.

Training helps Asian young adults to ‘soar high’

Methodist young adults from Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia and Vietnam gathered Nov. 4-8 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for 2024 ASCEND, a global leadership development training event.
The Rev. Jung Sun Oh.  Photo courtesy of the author.

The role of Confucianism in East Asian Christianity

Dialogue and mutual understanding of different cultures will strengthen and help carry out effective cross-racial and cross-cultural ministries.
General Conference
The Rev. Scott Christy, president of the New Federation of Asian American United Methodists, speaks during a gathering for delegates and observers of the United Methodist General Conference hosted by the racial-ethnic caucus on April 28 at First United Methodist Church in Charlotte, N.C. Photo by Gladys P. Mangiduyos, UM News.

Delegates decry hate crimes against Asian Americans

Resolution addresses racial-ethnic discrimination and gender-based violence in the Asian American context.
General Conference
Delegate Julia Stukalova (left) and other members of the Eastern Russia and Central Asia Provisional Conference react as delegates to the United Methodist General Conference, meeting in Charlotte, N.C.,  vote on April 25 to allow their conference to exit the denomination. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Eurasian conferences get go-ahead to form own church

The four annual conferences in Russia and its neighboring countries are leaving to form the autonomous Christian Methodist Church.

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