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Reconciliation has to do with making an effort of hearing and of listening to different views, though you may not like them. It is a discipline. It is a discipline of tolerance, and it is a determination to say, “What I cannot understand today, I may understand it tomorrow.”

The United Methodist Church, in particular, was instrumental in the reconciliation process and through its Child Rescue Center in Bo continues to lead a campaign to care for children left destitute after the war. United Methodist Bishop Joseph Humper, now retired, served as chair of the post-conflict Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The agenda for the Florida Annual Conference at the Tampa Convention Center June 1-4 was designed to support Bishop Timothy Whitaker’s 2011 theme, “Transforming the World by Living as Peacemakers.”

“I remember when the Sierra Leonean community in Kenya was threatened by division with squabbles here and there,” said Edgar Momoh, a Sierra Leonean United Methodist living in Kenya. “Because of his natural peacemaking prowess, the community held together until they relocated to Uganda.

The UMC announced a $50,000 donation to the National Park Service for developing a center at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, near Eads, Colorado. This article from The Denver Post highlights the Trinity UMC’s involvement in reconciliation dialogues between church members and American Indians each November.

Live web streaming of The International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) and video highlights. Even though you weren’t able to make it to Jamaica, you can still experience what’s going on!

Promoting reconciliation and ministering to a nation emerging from conflict are priorities for The United Methodist Church in Côte d’Ivoire, now that the battle for the presidency appears over.

A group of United Methodist students at American University in Washington, D.C., met hate head-on when members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church came to their campus Jan. 14.

What do you do when hate comes knocking at your door? That was the question that the students, faculty, and staff of American University had to face this past week after they’d learned that protesters from the infamous Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) would be coming to campus.

UMNS: One hundred Nigerian Muslims and Christians came in peace to Taraba, where they sought ways not only to coexist but also to work together to improve the lives of their beleaguered fellow citizens of all faiths.