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The Rev. James T. Laney, recipient of the 2019 World Methodist Peace Award, speaks during the Roundtable for Peace on the Korean Peninsula in Atlanta in this 2018 file photo. Laney is former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea and former dean of the Candler School of Theology. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Peace as a lifelong vocation
The two most recent recipients of the World Methodist Peace Award have very different backgrounds but share a commitment to peacemaking.
General Church
An ecumenical group that includes United Methodists, Roman Catholics, Muslims and other revival churches gather in Lodja, Congo, for a prayer gathering for a peaceful election process in the Sankuru Province. In the black pastoral dress is the Rev. Robert Shuyaka, a United Methodist pastor. Photo by Francois Omanyondo, UM News.

Bishop plays peacekeeping role in Central Congo
Amid growing insecurity, the bishop organized a reception for government authorities to look for ways to work together to bring peace to the region.
Social Concerns
Bishops Cynthia Moore-Koikoi (left) of the Western Pennsylvania Conference and Eben K. Nhiwatiwa of the Zimbabwe Area celebrate the signing of a continuing partnership covenant between the two areas during the 2019 Laity Academy at Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Photo by Eveline Chikwanah, UM News.

Zimbabwe, Western Pennsylvania partnership continues
A new covenant between the Zimbabwe Episcopal Area and Western Pennsylvania Conference continues a long-standing partnership that has improved health care, provided safe water, addressed poverty and built churches and relationships.
Social Concerns
Volunteers remove a traditional paramilitary mural from a wall in in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2003 to make way for a new mural that will honor both Catholic and Protestant heroes from the two World Wars. “Brexit” — Britain’s process of withdrawing from the 28-member European Union — is raising concerns about re-imposing hard borders on the island of Ireland. File photo by Kathleen LaCamera.

Brexit threatens longtime peace in Northern Ireland
Methodist peacebuilders, others raise concerns about re-imposing hard borders on the island of Ireland.

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