World Methodist Council

The organization Rise Up for Life and for Rights, led by United Methodist deaconess Norma P. Dollaga, holds a demonstration advocating for human rights in the Philippines on Valentine’s Day 2019. Dollaga, who has championed the rights of poor and marginalized persons in the Philippines for four decades, has been named the 2024 recipient of the World Methodist Council’s prestigious World Methodist Peace Award. File photo by Paul Jeffrey.

Filipino deaconess receives peace award

United Methodist Norma P. Dollaga is the recipient of the World Methodist Peace Award for her four decades of service focusing on peace and justice.

Mission and Ministry

Participants of the Fourth Roundtable for Peace on the Korean Peninsula make a sign of love with their fingers. The event, hosted by the Korean Methodist Church, The United Methodist Church and the World Methodist Council, was held Aug. 28-29 at the Ambassador Hotel and Kwanglim Methodist Church in Seoul, South Korea. Photo by the Rev. Thomas E. Kim, UM News.

Faith leaders advocate for peace and reunification of Koreas

The Fourth Roundtable for Peace on the Korean Peninsula, hosted by the Korean Methodist Church, The United Methodist Church and the World Methodist Council, was held Aug. 28-29 in Seoul, South Korea.

Bishops

Archbishop Michael Kehinde Stephen presents the posthumous World Methodist Peace Award to Millicent Yambasu, wife of late Sierra Leone Bishop John K. Yambasu, during a Service of Remembrance and Resurrection in Bo, Sierra Leone. Bishop Yambasu received the award for his work as a leader and peacemaker in Sierra Leone and The United Methodist Church. Photo by E Julu Swen, UM News.

Bishop Yambasu receives posthumous peace award

The late Sierra Leone bishop was honored by the World Methodist Council for his work as a bridge builder at home and across the United Methodist connection.

Social Concerns

The Rev. Susanne Nießner-Brose (right) listens while a 27-year-old Sudanese woman who asked that she be called Fatima relates her story of fleeing Sudan to seek religious freedom in Europe. She was taking asylum in 2017 at the United Methodist Church of the Redeemer in Bremen, Germany, where Nießner-Brose is pastor, and was later accepted as a refugee. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

A less welcoming place for refugees

As the migration crisis continues, Europe “is becoming a fortress” where desperate people are being turned away, says a United Methodist pastor in Germany.

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