Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 8—The Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church filed a lawsuit against five former members of the Cortez United ...

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 ...

The theological fracture within the country's largest mainline Methodist denomination has grown more contentious as a church conference in Georgia has temporarily blocked churches from disaffiliating.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, headquartered in Lakeland, voted on Saturday to allow the disaffiliation of ...

For the second time this year, the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church will convene Saturday to consider requests for separation from dozens of congregations. The conference, based in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Changes are coming to the United Methodist Church (UMC). On Sunday, a breakaway denomination called the Global Methodist Church (GMC) will launch after denomination leaders expressed ...

A historic meeting of the global United Methodist Church — one in which its future position on LGBT clergy and marriage was expected to be determined — has been postponed because of the coronavirus ...

Music and Christian Arts Ministry AME Praise dancers soulfully twirl, prance and dance to the music during the Opening Worship Service of the 51st AME Church General Conference at the Orange County ...

The dismantling of Mississippi's Methodist denomination was on full display Wednesday in Tupelo. Mississippi United Methodist Conference's eligible voters agreed to ratify the disaffiliations of 189 ...

Camp Otterbein has entertained summer campers in Hocking Hills for decades. But this summer, the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church canceled residential summer camps citing a lack of ...

The Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church, which gathers this week in Hot Springs, is preparing to lose its longtime bishop, Gary Mueller, while bracing, as well, for the departure of a ...