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The people of The United Methodist Church are marking the lead up to April 25, World Malaria Day, with a renewed call to members and friends to support Nothing But Nets, a grassroots anti-malaria effort which allows anyone, for $10, to send a lifesaving bed net to a family in Africa.

Tonight, 3,000 families in sub-Saharan Africa will mourn the deaths of their children. A similar number mourned yesterday; the same number will mourn tomorrow and the next day as drug-resistant strains of malaria claim more lives.

The 27 congregations of the United Methodist Red Bird Missionary Conference gave $19,300 for mission in Cambodia at their 2008 annual conference meeting.

It all started with a PBS special. Malaria: Fever Wars aired in April 2006 and Lynda Commale, a Downingtown mother of two, was really affected by the program, which told how in Africa a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria, according to UNICEF.

As it commemorates World Malaria Day, The United Methodist Church announced today it will receive a $5 million grant from the United Nations Foundation, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to help eliminate malaria and other diseases of poverty.

For more than 30 years, the United Methodist Church has been trying to show that a denomination divided against itself on homosexuality can still stand.

On the 40th anniversary to the day of the creation of The United Methodist Church, and within 40 miles of where it happened, United Methodists from 129 annual conferences and 50 countries gathered at the Fort Worth (Texas) Convention Center for the start of the 2008 General Conference.

In a world plagued by war, disease, the threat of global warming and a sinking economy, some people fear that the church is becoming irrelevant, the president of the United Methodist Church's Council of Bishops said Wednesday at the denomination's General Conference.

Africa University hopes to play a key role in the United Methodist Church's efforts to limit malaria and other diseases that are still prevalent on the continent.

United Methodists from Fort Worth and Dallas area conferences will shoot hoops at 2 p.m. April 26 in Fort Worth as part of a campaign to stamp out malaria in Africa.

The United Methodist Churches of Mt. Storm and Bayard have undertaken a project that will help stop the spread of malaria by supplying treated bed nets for the children of Africa.

Nothing But Nets, a popular anti-malaria campaign founded by The United Methodist Church and its partners, announced Thursday that it raised more than $18 million in its first year.

President and Mrs. George W. Bush’s February tour of five Africa countries was concerned in large measure with health issues, and from a United Methodist perspective Liberia was an excellent last stop.

Thirty seconds from now, one child in Africa will have died from malaria, a preventable disease that kills more than 1 million people each year. Barrie Tritle wasn't comfortable with those statistics.

Some places just aren't meant to be inhabited, so stifled are they by natural impediments like tropical diseases. That was the perception of Houston in the beginning of the last century, and malaria, which ran rampant, was a pressing reason why.

The volleyball net hung across the lawn, the basketball hoop was open for action, and badminton rackets rested on a table nearby at Carteret Street United Methodist Church on Monday.

Last week’s first-ever “Idol Gives Back” charity special raised more than $60 million for eight charities, Fox reported Thursday, and the pledges were still coming in.

Christians are taking action against the preventable disease that kills 20 percent of African children under the age of five by giving up lunch on Malaria Awareness Day on Apr. 25.

The people of The United Methodist Church are using Malaria Awareness Day, April 25, as an opportunity to call attention to the plight of children in Africa, one of whom dies every 30 seconds from malaria.

The people of The United Methodist Church are using April 25, Malaria Awareness Day, as an opportunity to call attention to the plight of children in Africa, one of whom dies every 30 seconds from malaria.

United Methodist bishops are putting their wallets to work in the fight to save lives by preventing malaria in Africa.

The people of The United Methodist Church hosted two Nothing But Nets partner organizations—the United Nations Foundation and NBA Cares—on a malaria observation trip to Angola.

The United Methodist Church joined NBA Cares, Sports Illustrated, and the United Nations Foundation for the global launch of the Nothing but Nets anti-malaria campaign on Thursday in New York City.

The symbol of hope for me today is a pink mosquito net. On Monday, we met Esperanca Afonco at the Pediatric Hospital in Luanda.  She was admitted a week ago due to complications with malaria.

The Nothing But Nets team left early this morning with WHO and NBA Legend Sam Perkins, to meet with the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Federal Roll Back Malaria Officers.

Paring of sports and public health is working! Today Nothing But Nets, The United Methodist Church, and the UN Foundation were guests at a court opening in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria.

The Nothing But Nets campaign will receive a $3 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the purchase and distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets to prevent malaria among children and families in Africa.

Bishop Thomas Bickerton, president of United Methodist Communications, will join NBA legend Sam Perkins, Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly and others for the global launch of the Nothing But Nets anti-malaria campaign on Jan. 4 in New York City, including a launch event at the NBA store on Fifth Avenue at 2:30 p.m. EST.

Two major church agencies were included on the list of “Who’s Who” in the campaign against malaria in Africa during a White House Summit on Malaria this past week.

The bishops of the United Methodist Church are calling members of the denomination to "live the United Methodist way" in their daily lives and public witness and be a community of believers who offer hope to the world.

LUANDA, Angola (UMNS) -- Sometimes malaria can kill a child before anyone even knows the child has been infected.

Editor's note: Malaria kills a child every 30 seconds and a person every 10 seconds somewhere in the world.

KAMPALA, Uganda (UMNS) — The rains have come to central Uganda. This is good.

NEW YORK (UMNS) — Old diseases — malaria, tuberculosis and measles — still account for significant death rates in some countries.

NEW YORK (UMNS) — Bishop Joao Somane Machado sees children in Mozambique dying of malaria on a daily basis and he wants the world to pay attention.

NEW YORK (UMNS) - When the Rev. R. Randy Day talks with United Methodist pastors in Africa, each one personally knows someone who has died from malaria.

STAMFORD, Conn. (UMNS)—If United Methodists can help clear Mozambique of landmines, they should be able to do the same with mosquitoes.

CHICUQUE, Mozambique (UMNS)—Chicuque, on the shore of the Indian Ocean, is breathtaking.