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Working in collaboration with global and local partners, Global Ministries Peace and Justice programs foster advocacy, accompaniment and action networks; strengthen interfaith collaboration; and support humanitarian aid and development programs. Initiatives such as the peace pilgrimage, mediation and reconciliation training, trauma healing ministries and the advocacy academy for human rights and social justice equip leaders to participate in peacemaking ministries.
Through strategic partnerships with African health boards and support for local health systems, we are working to restore suspended initiatives, combat preventable diseases, and ensure continued access to lifesaving treatments, vaccines, and vital healthcare services for vulnerable communities. Our current Global Health priorities include: Maternal Newborn and Child Health; HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis; malaria awareness, prevention, testing and treatment; nutritional assistance and rehabilitation; essential medicines; and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
A staff member of the Princess Basma satellite unit of Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City gently counsels a patient and assesses his treatment needs. (Photo: Courtesy of Princess Basma Centre)
The Princess Basma satellite unit, based in Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, provides rehabilitation and psychosocial services for children with chronic conditions and post-trauma injuries, including post-operative rehabilitation for children undergoing life-changing surgery as a result of the war.
Photo: Young Adult Peace Pilgrimage participants in Korea pose by the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) park where North and South Korea meet.
The Young Adult Pilgrimage of Peace to Korea, sponsored by Global Ministries and the World Methodist Council and hosted by the Korean Methodist Church, offered seminarians and other young adults an opportunity to learn the ways of peacemaking from those who grieve deeply and practice long-term advocacy and hope for reunification in Korea.
Photo: Courtesy of Insar Gohar
After losing family members in a horrific act of terror that targeted their church, a Global Ministries’ National in Mission worker in Pakistan dedicates his life and ministry to counseling and consoling other families who have experienced oppression and violence.
Dear God, we often ask you for peace in this world, and we do earnestly pray for wars to cease and for comfort for those in the world affected by violence and oppression. Help us to remember also that Jesus, the Prince of Peace, taught us how to live with love and compassion and understanding for others in our daily lives, minute by minute, and day by day. Remind us of this Christian practice and our role in peacemaking. Amen
In response to the rise of global and regional conflicts, Global Ministries is committed to advancing peace efforts grounded in the gospel values of love, compassion and reconciliation. Join our efforts to support ministries of Peace.
A staff member of the Princess Basma satellite unit of Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City gently counsels a patient and assesses his treatment needs. (Photo: Courtesy of Princess Basma Centre)
Opened in June 2024, the Princess Basma satellite unit, based in Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, provides rehabilitation and psychosocial services for children with chronic conditions and post-trauma injuries, including post-operative rehabilitation for children undergoing life-changing surgery as a result of the war. By the end of 2024, the team of six staff had treated over 700 children, both out of the rehabilitation unit and via two displaced therapists from their temporary shelters.
In 2025, Princess Basma added two more members to its team in Gaza, which now includes a doctor, social worker, three physiotherapists, an occupational therapist, a speech and language therapist, and a playworker. The team sees on average 70-75 children every week, following a holistic multidisciplinary approach. Since the October cease-fire, the team is working to full capacity. UMCOR has supported this ministry with several grants.
One of the most moving moments for me,” said Ismael, a physiotherapist, “was when, after months of sessions, a child with an amputated leg was playing with his peers again and laughing from the bottom of his heart. What gives me strength is the children’s determination to live, and their clinging to hope despite everything.”
Young Adult Peace Pilgrimage participants in Korea pose by the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) park where North and South Korea meet. (Photo: Jin Kim)
The Young Adult Pilgrimage of Peace (YAPP) visited South Korea this year, hosted by the Korean Methodist Church (KMC) in collaboration with The United Methodist Church through the General Board of Global Ministries and the World Methodist Council (WMC). This kind of pilgrimage, journeyed by many in ecumenical circles, helps Christians understand their role in strengthening peacebuilding efforts globally. Seminarians and other young adult participants heard from people who witnessed the devastation caused by warfare and the political tensions that have persisted for 75 years between North and South Korea.
“I listened not only to the people living and surviving from the constant attempts to bury and erase them and the (hi)story that they carry, but to the land itself,” said Adrian Mendoza, a student from Drew Theological School in New Jersey. “The trees, the soil, and the wind seemed to carry memories of violence long buried…When the daughter of a victim spoke to us, I had an epiphany that we were not just there to hear her story. We were called to carry it, so that her unburied hope of the full truth being unearthed would one day come, even if not in her lifetime.”
Photo: Courtesy of Insar Gohar
Insar Gohar knows the pain of losing precious family members to a tragic and senseless act of violence. A bomb exploded in his church during a worship service, and he lost two of his children and his mother. A grant from Global Ministries made it possible for him and his family to leave Pakistan for a time and receive counseling, and then Gohar applied to Claremont School of Theology for studies focused on pastoral care and counseling.
Today, Gohar and his family are back in Pakistan, and he has developed a ministry called Care and Counseling, working out of an office of the Peshawar Diocese of the Church of Pakistan as a Global Ministries National in Mission worker. “I started visiting the survivors of the All Saints’ Church bombing, which affected 90 families, as to help them was my main purpose and calling. As Father God comforted me, now it is my responsibility to comfort those who are suffering like me.”
The counseling services have grown to include victims of persecution, violence and other tragedies in Peshawar and other parts of the country. Two years ago, this ministry answered the call to console residents of Jaranwala, where 26 churches and 80 homes of Christian residents were burned down by extremists.
McDowell County is one of the poorest in the U.S., and the communities of Anawalt, Leckie and Gary are some of the hardest hit by the current six-year water crisis. All have Methodist churches that are part of the Welch Charge.
To ease the burden of residents who have to purchase many gallons of drinking water weekly, the Welch Charge contacted the West Virginia Conference Disaster Response Coordinator, Jim McCune, for help. McCune’s United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) connection put him in touch with Global Ministries’ Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program.
A WASH grant allowed them to obtain a 500-gallon “water buffalo.” The conference disaster response team arranged to fill the portable water buffalo from the Welch water system, the county seat of McDowell, and transport it to Gary, where residents have been supplied with refillable containers. Residents of all three towns can come to get water, and volunteers will also continue deliveries for those who need it. Meanwhile, residents, including church members, continue to advocate state and local officials for a permanent solution to their aging, compromised water infrastructure. Full Story
