Migration

The Rev. David Maldonado. Video image courtesy of IMU Latina (Iglesia Metodista Unida Latina) via YouTube by UM News.

United Methodists are called to care for the vulnerable

For migrants seeking safety in the United States, vulnerability becomes a constant companion. United Methodists are called to care for the vulnerable, be it physical, financial, legal or political.

Violence

Thousands of Ukrainian refugees, mostly women and children, are arriving daily at the Budapest Keleti railway station in Hungary. United Methodists across eastern Europe are providing shelter, food and other help for those who have fled Ukraine. Photo courtesy of the Rev. László Khaled.

United Methodists in and near Ukraine help refugees

Cluj-Napoca United Methodist Church in Romania opened a community center last year. Now the former hotel is once again hosting "guests" who had to flee Ukraine.

Local Church

A mural at the United Methodist Christ Ministry Center in San Diego illustrates part of the text of Matthew 25, the biblical basis of the center’s ministry among immigrants who have crossed the nearby border. Still frame from video by Joey Butler, UM News.

Haitian migrants bring vitality to declining church

Congregation changes from being a traditional church to a ministry center and opens its doors wide to those in need.

Social Concerns

This portrait from 1887 shows people from the Chiricahua band of Apache Native Americans about four months after their arrival at the United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pa. Native Americans were taken from their homes and enrolled in boarding schools for many years, separating students from both their families and their culture. Image courtesy of the Richard Henry Pratt Papers, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University via Wikimedia Commons.

Pastor reflects on abuses at Indian boarding schools

As the U.S. Interior Department investigates the Indian boarding schools that took young Native Americans from their families and tried to expunge their culture from them, United Methodists address the church’s role and their hopes for the future.

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