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Cyclone Amphan has cut a deadly path through Bangladesh and India, where at least 96 people have been killed between the two countries. The storm is the most powerful in more than a decade.

In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of displaced Rohingya refugees are crowded into a semi-permanent refugee camp on what used to be tourist beaches and recreational land. The Rohingya people primarily lived in Myanmar until August 2017, when tensions between the Rohingya and the

More than 500 Nazarenes celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Church of the Nazarene in Bangladesh this February. Prodeep Roy, a 65-year-old Nazarene in Bangladesh, had a personal reason to join the Silver Jubilee. “Today I thank God because many years ago I received Jesus Christ through the

The roughly 500 people attending the Bangladesh North District Assembly were asked to move to different parts of the building, depending on what village they were from. There was gentle confusion as people tried to sort out to which area they needed to move. The scene unfolded 30 January, just after

Asia*, a 60-year-old Rohingya woman who fled violence against her people in Myanmar, could not sleep at night in the refugee camp in Bangladesh because she was so cold. On 8 December, Bangladeshi Nazarenes representing Nazarene Compassionate Ministries traveled to a Rohingya refugee camp in a place

Nazmul*, 60, was one of 10,000 people who received assistance from Bangladesh Nazarene Mission (BNM), the compassionate ministries arm of the Church of the Nazarene in Bangladesh, following historic flooding in late August and early September that affected more than 40 million people. At least 1,500

More than 300 young people gathered from across Bangladesh, 22 to 25 September, for a mega youth conference at which 16 accepted Jesus Christ as their savior and were baptized on Sunday morning. Another 14 accepted Christ that evening and will be baptized soon. “In Bangladesh, youth … motivate the

The summer of 2017 has had more than its share of natural disasters: Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, earthquakes in Mexico, mudslides in Sierra Leone, floods in India and Bangladesh, unprecedented property damage, and an ongoing loss of life. Human migration, driven by war, disease, disaster,

Komali* is a Child Development Center coordinator in the North-West District in Bangladesh. After massive floods swept into Bangladesh in August, she wanted to visit one of her CDCs in an affected area. She found the whole village flooded; everywhere she looked there was water. People and cattle

Nazarenes provide disaster aid in Bangladesh Extraordinarily heavy monsoon rains have devastated areas in South Asia recently, including Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. More than 1,200 people have died in the floods — including many children — and more than 40 million people have been affected.