Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ongoing divide of the United Methodist Church, which used to be the second largest protestant denomination in the U.S. after ...

Jun. 28—Methodists in North Carolina moved full speed ahead be a fully inclusive church where discrimination of all kinds will not be tolerated during an annual gathering at Lake Junaluska earlier ...

The service celebrated the local church officially becoming a “Global” Methodist church. It also served as a look back at its long history as a “United” Methodist church. It was one of the saddest ...

More churches have disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church as the prominent Protestant denomination continues its split along lines of progressive and traditional theology. On Saturday, 96 ...

The United Methodist Church has announced a proposal to split following an impasse over the debate on gay marriage and LGBTQ inclusion in the church, The Washington Post reports. The proposed plan ...

More than half of the United Methodist churches across Alabama have disaffiliated from the denomination, and the signs are becoming obvious – churches are literally changing their signs, reflecting ...

Following a week on a mission trip in rural Kentucky, Pastor Skyler Jones is ready to step up into the pulpit of a new United Methodist congregation in Oneonta. He’ll know the congregation, and ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Leaders of the United Methodist Church have expressed regret over last week’s decision by the branch in Côte d’Ivoire to leave the union following the church’s decision to ...

ATHENS, Ga. — The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to allow 261 congregations to break from the denomination amid a schism over theological differences and the role of ...

SEARCY -- The lawsuit between this city's largest United Methodist Church and the denomination's Arkansas conference has been settled. White County Circuit Judge Daniel Brock dismissed the case on ...