Call for solidarity with The United Methodist Church in Mozambique

The United Methodist Church in Mozambique is in urgent need of prayer and other signs of solidarity as the southern African country experiences continuing civil unrest and renewed destruction from cyclones and flooding. 

Reports coming to the General Board of Global Ministries indicate extensive displacement of people and widespread fear as a result of the actions of armed Islamist groups and clashes between those groups and the Mozambique military, aided by Portugal. The clashes, which started two months ago, are particularly intense in the North Annual Conference. 

“Our church members are gravely impacted,” reported Bishop Joaquina Filipe Nhanala, leader of the Mozambique United Methodist Church, which consists of two conferences, North and South. “The situation is becoming worse and worse as the attacks have resumed. The flow of people from the north to other parts of the country is overwhelming.” 

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