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 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church in Wilmington has announced that it is taking legal action against the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC).

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 ...

The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology. Now, with the approach of its first major ...

(RNS) — After a four-year COVID-19 delay, and the departure of about 25% of its U.S. churches, the United Methodist Church is meeting again and the issue of human sexuality is back on the agenda. (RNS ...

Numerous church congregations in northeast Georgia and across north Georgia reached a deadline on Thursday for disaffiliating with the North Georgia United Methodist Church Conference. The North ...

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 ...

United Methodist delegates from Alabama converged in Charlotte on Tuesday for the start of the United Methodist General Conference, the denomination’s worldwide policy-making meeting that continues ...

For the first time in 91 years, the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church convenes in Pensacola, home of "the mother church of Florida Methodism." The group will gather to ...

An Oklahoma pastor is traveling to the United Methodist Church's General Conference with one big goal in mind: to see the ban on same-sex marriage and gay ordination lifted. "It will be a big change ...

The Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church has approved the departures of another 46 congregations. Members of the Lakeland-based conference held a virtual session Saturday to vote on ...

The United Methodist Church in Nigeria has taken steps to forge a path forward and put behind the acrimonious division that ...