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Working in collaboration with global and local partners, Global Ministries Peace 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.
Working in collaboration with global and local partners, Global Ministries Peace 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.
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.
A group of young adults, including United Methodist seminarians, traveled to the West Bank through the Come and See initiative, engaging communities shaped by conflict. Their pilgrimage emphasized listening, solidarity, and firsthand learning, inspiring deeper faith and a commitment to lasting justice and global peace.
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
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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.”
(Photo: Courtesy of Jin Yang Kim)
The Come and See initiative brought together 15 participants, including seven United Methodist seminary students, for a pilgrimage to the West Bank amid ongoing conflict. Their journey, rooted in solidarity and peace, offered firsthand experience of the realities facing communities in the region. The group visited many places in the Holy Land, including the Hope School in Beit Jala, the village Wadi Foquin Narjes and the Princess Basma Centre. Though they maintained a distance from Gaza, the epicenter of the war itself, they witnessed the need firsthand as children with disabilities and injuries from war received rehabilitation and community members faced barriers to accessing food, clean water, and education.
“I hope to continue to be a student of the realities of the Holy Land…until hopefully one day the reality on the ground in Palestine matches the reality of God’s vision of justice that leads to peace for the whole of the land,” said Rachel, a pilgrim from Duke Divinity School.
The pilgrimage efforts were sponsored by Global Ministries, and the team was hosted by the World Council of Churches Jerusalem Liaison Office with support from the Methodist Liaison Office. The initiative signifies their collective commitment to bearing witness to the Gospel by uplifting the value of peace and justice for the vulnerable.
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.
