Over the last several days, the Amity Foundation has teamed up with local enterprises to support hospitals in fighting the coronavirus outbreak. Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak was placed under quarantine on 23 January 2020.

Funded by the Amity Foundation, the reconstruction of a primary school in Liping County, Guizhou Province was completed.

On March 8, 2019, the Amity Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Beijing to strengthen cooperation on humanitarian relief.

On February 22, 2019, Amity’s relief team reached Qinghai Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture to provide disaster relief.

Wang Yang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, attends a symposium with leaders of national religious groups ahead of the Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 1, 2019. Wang Yang on Friday extended New Year greetings to religious personages and believers nationwide. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)

On 10th December, the 7th National Joint Meeting of Religious Communities was held in Beijing. The meeting centered on exchanging the ideas about how to revise and implement the bylaws of national religious community. Leaders, General Secretaries from national religious communities, associations, YMCA and YWCA attended the conference. Wang Zuo’an, Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee, Director of the State Administration of Religious Affairs attended the con

From 15th to 20th October, Shanghai YMCA held the YMCA World Urban Network Conference in Shanghai, gathering over 100 YMCA representatives from over 50 cities both home and abroad. Leaders from relevant departments of the Central Government, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission of CPPCC Shanghai Committee, and Overseas Chinese, Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress attended the Conference.

Super Typhoon Mangkhut, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Ompong, landed the Philippines on September 15, 2018 as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon which subsequently affected Hong Kong and southern China.

Dear Friends from communities of Catholic and Protestant Churches,