RUWA, ZIMBABWE — United Methodist clergy and laity excitedly greeted Zimbabwe bishop Rev. Gift T. Machinga, welcoming him and his vision for the Southern African nation. Machinga, elected in March, is ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — A discordant backdrop of pedestrians, buses and street vendors in downtown Harare encircled Innercity Circuit Harare United Methodist Church at 8 a.m. But inside the church premises ...

with splintering in the United Methodist Church, fueled in part by disagreements about LGBTQ+ rights, and a landmark restructuring, African leaders have pushed for restoration of normalcy.

United Methodist Church recently ratified landmark restructuring giving regions outside U.S. more say. Many call it the "decolonizing" of the denomination after costly splintering. The Tennessean, ...

The Central United Methodist Church in Johannesburg, which has been home for thousands of refugees, many from Zimbabwe, is shutting its doors to refugees, on New Year’s eve, leaving an estimated 500 ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Leaders of the United Methodist Church expressed regret over last week's decision by the branch in Ivory Coast to leave the union following the church's decision to repeal a ...

Religious and human rights groups, along with a top UN official, are calling on the Zimbabwe government to end its campaign of evicting the urban poor and destroying their shacks and market stalls. An ...

The Tennessean - USA Today Network dispatched reporters to Zimbabwe as part of a reporting project on the United Methodist Church in advance of results on vote to restructure denomination. UMC ...

“The United Methodist Church is not going to die here,” Mwadiwa said. The splintering in the denomination is just the latest obstacle for United Methodism in Zimbabwe, and that it’s working to ...