Norwegian youth explore issues of poverty at United Nations

Eleven students from a United Methodist high school in Norway are focusing on poverty and other issues during a visit to U.N. offices in New York. [More]

Also: NCC study guide focuses on poverty goals

Interfaith clinic provides dental care to working poor

A dental clinic founded in the basement of a United Methodist church is providing care to some 1,200 people a year in the Nashville, Tenn., area. [More]

Producing Bible by hand is labor of love, faith for Dallas man

James Pepper has spent 18 years writing and illustrating portions of the Bible the old-fashioned way: by hand. He is close to completing an illuminated manuscript of the Gospels.[More]

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