The ongoing divide of the United Methodist Church, which used to be the second largest protestant denomination in the U.S. after Southern Baptist Convention, might be a sign of broader societal ...

The Central Korean United Methodist Church in Overland Park is one of several looking to leave the denomination over LGBTQ issues. The departure of the churches in Kansas and Nebraska comes as UMC ...

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 ...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- The Northwest Texas Annual Conference of United Methodist Churches started like a regular church service. Participants sang, took communion, then prayed before voting to split from ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Nationwide, some United Methodist churches are disaffiliating because they don’t believe in same-sex marriage or that a pastor can be a part of the LGBTQ+ community. One local ...

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 ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Christianity’s waiting season of Advent drew to a close on Christmas Sunday, but the United Methodist Church’s (UMC) Holston Conference — and the entire denomination — is ...

More than 6,200 churches in the U.S. have left the United Methodist Church amid a splintering and launch of more conservative, breakaway denomination, the Global Methodist Church. Churches outside the ...

More than 250 Kentucky congregations of the United Methodist Church have split from their parent denomination, effectively shrinking the sect's size to just over half of what it was in the state. A ...

A lawyer representing multiple congregations facing legal hurdles in their attempts to leave the largest mainline Methodist denomination in the U.S. said the battles are ultimately financial. "It's ...

Two of the five United Methodist Church regional bodies in Texas met over the weekend and approved requests from 439 congregations to disaffiliate from the second largest U.S. Protestant denomination.