Migration & Refugees News & Stories

As human attempts to stop the war in Gaza continue, Palestinians ask Christians to pray, believing that God will find a way forward even when the path is not clear.

As the number of migrants passing through Apaxco, Mexico, increases, Mexican Methodists offer food, shelter and hope to weary families with support from UMCOR.

ATLANTA – United Methodist churches in the U.S. will have the opportunity to help immigrants, migrants and refugees living in their local communities again in…

A $250,000 UMCOR grant is providing more than 15,000 people in East Congo with food, hygiene kits and other essential support.

UMCOR supports host churches and agencies that seek to make temporary shelters into more permanent homes for refugees from Ukraine.

Caring for refugees from Ukraine who crossed into neighboring countries is the latest chapter of an UMCOR-CWS partnership that began in the mid-1940s.

Multimillion-dollar funding will benefit displaced persons and refugees in Poland, Romania and Ukraine.

Global Ministries/UMCOR wholeheartedly endorses the Immigration Law & Justice (ILJ) Network’s statement expressing serious concerns about the recent expansion of the Title 42 public health order regarding immigration.

The UMCOR Asylum Project (“Leading with Welcome”), a partnership that includes UMCOR, National Justice for Our Neighbors and Church World Service, helps a family from Honduras win their asylum case on the grounds of religious persecution.

UMCOR supports United Methodists in Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czechia and Estonia as they welcome refugees from Ukraine into their homes and houses of worship.

UMC churches in the United States can aid migrants in their local communities with the help of a $2,000 grant from the United Methodist Committee on Relief. 

Funds are providing food, water, medicine, shelter and transportation to Ukrainians and other refugees.