All News

Spacer component

Recent News

Image
Syria Turkey Earthquakes

Recovery efforts continue in aftermath of Syria, Turkey earthquake

In the month since two devastating earthquakes struck Syria and Turkey, UNICEF reports that more than 50 thousand people have died, and more than 850 thousand children remain displaced.
28 Mar 2023
Go to content
Image
Syria

Nazarenes respond to earthquakes in Turkey, Syria

A powerful earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria has claimed the lives of more than 41,000 people and left more than 100,000 people injured. The destruction leaves millions displaced in a region already sheltering four million war refugees.
16 Feb 2023
Go to content
Image
Feature image for Middle East Story

Nazarene church celebrates 100 years in Middle East

2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Church of the Nazarene's presence in the Middle East, which began in Palestine and Syria in 1921. Their early roots of compassion are still alive and well today.
10 Dec 2021
Go to content
Image
arabic speaking poland

Nazarenes plant Arabic-speaking churches in Poland

Lena, Nidal, and their son Rafi escaped war-torn Syria with hopes of immigrating to Germany. After stopping in Poland, they found a home there, and Rafi’s call to ministry became clear to him. Lena and Rafi have now started two Arabic-speaking churches in Poland.
29 Jul 2020
Go to content
Image
Rafi and Lena

Syrian refugees find home with Nazarenes in Poland

When Lena, Nidal, and Rafi fled from war-torn Syria to Poland, they didn't expect to stay there for very long. Now, they understand that Poland is right where God wants them.
23 Jul 2020
Go to content

Middle East church planter, district superintendent passes away

Habib Alajaji, pastor and district superintendent, passed away 14 October at the age of 80. Alajaji was born into a Christian family in 1937 in Aleppo, Syria. After finishing at Ebenezer Bible School in 1960, he served in an evangelistic center in Beirut, Lebanon, until he was ordained in 1970.
18 Oct 2018
Go to content

Nazarenes care for displaced children through Christmas Project

For children who have been displaced by conflict, the list of lost things can be long: home, consistent education, friends, stability, and sometimes even family members. Add to that other factors such as hunger, sickness, and isolation, and it’s clear that children caught in conflict are truly
06 Oct 2017
Go to content

New friendships: Regional office engages with refugees in Busingen

Although European Nazarene College (EuNC) campus closed its residential program in Büsingen, Germany, in 2012 and sold the property to the town in 2015, the apartment building there has been given a new purpose: Housing refugees. While EuNC has expanded its reach to 18 countries through 17 learning
05 Oct 2017
Go to content

Syrian refugee discovers Christ through Lebanon church

As Naseef helped his parents toil in the fields of the family farm in Syria, he dreamt of a different life. Someday, he told himself, he would become finance manager in a corporation. Naseef was well on his way to realizing his dream when he enrolled at university to study his passion: economics.
27 Jul 2017
Go to content

Middle East church shares its heart with refugees

Aerial view of a refugee camp. Christians often talk about “neighbors” almost in the abstract, in response to Jesus’ command to His followers to love their neighbors the same way they love themselves. For a Church of the Nazarene in Jordan, loving their neighbors is not just figurative or symbolic.
07 Mar 2017
Go to content
Spacer component

LATEST

Image
Mindoro District

New district established on Philippines…

27 Mar 2024
Go to content
Image
Easter

Easter Hope

27 Mar 2024
Go to content
Image
Belize

Flags of the Nations: Belize

27 Mar 2024
Go to content
Image
In Memoriam Pond

In Memoriam: 22 March

22 Mar 2024
Go to content

MOST POPULAR

There are no news items to show.
Spacer component

NEWSLETTER

Spacer component
Spacer component

ABOUT US

WYSIWYG Content

NCN (Nazarene Communications Network) is the official news service for the Church of the Nazarene denomination. Founded in 1958, it was originally known as Nazarene Information Services.

 

Stories to share? Get in contact with us at news@nazarene.org

or 1-877-258-1161.

 

© Church of the Nazarene, Inc.

Show Border?
No