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Lee and Bouyanue When thousands of Ebola-stricken people in Karnplay City, Liberia, were separated into quarantine camps to prevent the disease from spreading, Nazarenes took an innovative approach to reach them with the hope of Jesus and also combat myths and disinformation about the disease.

Liberia Monrovia District Superintendent Daniel Johnson takes a photo with a family of Ebola survivors. Ronny Beech, a Mission Corps volunteer serving at the Africa Regional Office, recently traveled across the Africa West Field to collect stories from areas ravaged by the Ebola virus. "During the

Flags waved, voices rang out in song, and people from countries across West Africa and beyond danced down aisles in colorful, traditional attire. In Grand Bassam, just outside of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire where the deaths of a recent terrorist attack are still being mourned, nearly 500

Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free more than a year and a half after the first case of the world's worst Ebola outbreak was reported in West Africa. On November 7, the World Health Organization reported 42 days (the length of two incubation cycles of the deadly virus) had passed since the last

The Nazarene church is supporting children in Sierra Leone (pictured) and Liberia who have lost their parents to Ebola. (Photos by Vidal Cole) The Ebola outbreak left thousands of orphans who are now trying to navigate life without their parents. Nazarene churches in two of the most affected

Matt Jackson is a doctor finishing his training in anesthesia and intensive care in Manchester, United Kingdom. An attendee at Longsight Church of the Nazarene for the past six years, Jackson recently returned from seven weeks assisting in a clinical trial for new Ebola treatment drugs in West

Church of the Nazarene Pastor James Fullah of Sierra Leone and his family were declared Ebola-free after completing 21 days of quarantine. James, his five children, and seven other family members were placed in quarantine after James' wife, Isatu, passed away in February from the Ebola virus. Two of

Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma called for a three-day lockdown in the country as an effort to curb the spread of the Ebola virus. Citizens have been told to stay inside March 27 to 29 and from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the following three Saturdays: April 4, 11, and 18. Vidal Cole, the Nazarene

Those who have been potentially exposed to the Ebola virus spend 21 days in quarantine to eliminate the risk of infecting others. If no symptoms show after those three weeks in isolation, the person is free to return to normal life. But many find that life after quarantine is far from normal.

Freetown, Sierra Leone — Two of Church of the Nazarene Pastor James Fullah's daughters, ages 6 and 16, were admitted to an Ebola treatment facility last week after they began showing signs of the virus. The girls' mother, Isatu Fullah, died in mid-February after contracting the Ebola virus. James,