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A portion of Hong Kong at night as seen from Victoria Peak. More than 400,000 migrant domestic workers live in Hong Kong, about five percent of the total population. They cook and clean and care for children, pets, and the elderly. They also at times endure horrible treatment. Photo by Paul Jeffrey, UM News.

United Methodists support migrant workers in Hong Kong

A United Methodist pastor from the Philippines and a deaconess from the U.S. work to empower migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The migrants are mostly women who often face difficult challenges in both their workplace and their relationship to families back home.

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.