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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Malaria research center housed at Africa University, a United Methodist-affiliated institution in Mutare, Zimbabwe, received a stop work order in March with Trump administration closing USAID. New ...

The decision by the United Methodist Church's global general conference to embrace homosexuality has divided the church in Zimbabwe, with former leader Reverend Forbes Matonga and a handful of elders ...

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 ...

Whereas United Methodists in some parts of Africa are leaving the denomination following a costly splintering, Zimbabweans' zeal is resolute.

“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 ...