GBGM

Amal Nassar shows a visiting delegation of U.S. church activists a trailer that has been moved onto land beside her family farm near Bethlehem. Known as the Tent of Nations, the farm is an educational and environmental center that sits on the last remaining Palestinian hilltop in the middle of the Gush Etzion settlement block near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The Christian Palestinian family remains under constant threat from settlers and the Israeli military. The trailer was moved there in May 2024, in what Nassar believes is an attempt to establish justification for expelling the Christian family. Photo by Paul Jeffrey, UM News.

Embattled Christian farmers in Holy Land refuse to hate

Amid increased harassment from Israeli settlers, a Lutheran Palestinian family continues its nonviolent struggle to keep the “Tent of Nations” farm.

Human Rights

The Rev. Calvin Hill, a Navajo holy man and pastor at First United Methodist Church in Newcastle, Wyo., puts cedar ashes on Doug Tzan, assistant dean at Wesley Theological Seminary, in a calling your name ceremony Sept. 11 during the 10th Historical Convocation at Bozeman United Methodist Church in Bozeman, Mont. The convocation featured a detailed report on The United Methodist Church’s involvement with U.S. boarding schools for Native American children. Photo by the Rev. Jeremy Smith.

Spotlighting UMC’s role in Indigenous boarding schools

A report on The United Methodist Church’s involvement with U.S. boarding schools for Native American children was presented at the 10th Historical Convocation. Remembrance and reconciliation is the goal of the initial research, but more work is planned.

Mission and Ministry

‘We refuse to be enemies’

A family that was recognized with the World Methodist Peace Award calls for support as harassment in Holy Land intensifies.

Mission and Ministry

Prempeh Collins Kwasi, a United Methodist Board of Global Ministries special envoy, speaks at a five-day sign language training course for clergy and lay leaders held in the Rohero Parish in the Bujumbura District of Burundi. Kwasi, who is Deaf, helped coordinate the training. Photo by Rev. Niyiragira Ladislas, UM News.

Burundi United Methodist ministry encourages inclusion

Support from the United Methodist Deaf and Hard of Hearing Ministries Committee and Global Ministries has enabled the church in Burundi to launch a new ministry for people who are Deaf or who have partial hearing loss.

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