An effort to remove anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions at the UMC General Conference emerged in response to decades of traditionalist legislative wins. While also removing anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions, progressive ...

The United Methodist Church, while declining for decades in its American version, has been growing exponentially in Africa. As part of United Methodists worldwide, Africans have a large say in what ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has made a ruling affecting 15 cases in the continuing legal saga of churches suing to leave the United Methodist Church and take their property with them. The cases involved ...

An Auburn and Duke-educated pastor who led the conference board of trustees during the contentious 2023 disaffiliation ...

United Methodists from around the state gathered at the Annual Conference in Covington, Kentucky, last week. There were moments of celebration, frustration and a wrestling to articulate a clear ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United Methodist Church’s top policymaking assembly illustrated on Monday the legislative slog the 700-plus delegates are encountering. On the first day of the second and final ...

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 ...

The General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Charlotte is the first one that Robin Dease is attending as a bishop. And it’s likely the last one that retired Bishop Sharon Zimmerman Rader, ...

More than 100 churches recently left the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church without the usual attention that hundreds of departing congregations across the nation have received in ...

April 22 (UPI) --The United Methodist Church is opening its General Conference, on Tuesday in North Carolina, to reshape the country's largest Protestant denomination in the hopes of slowing historic ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Several churches in the Raleigh area are no longer affiliated with the United Methodist Church, as some religious leaders fear the church could change traditions when it comes ...