Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Annual conferences within the United Methodist Church cannot leave as part of an ongoing schism within the nation's largest ...

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 ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Queen City is set to be the stage for a possibly consequential decision within the United Methodist Church, one of the largest mainline Protestant Christian denominations. For ...

(RNS) — No, an annual conference in the United States can’t just up and leave the United Methodist Church. At least not yet. While the denomination’s Book of Discipline has provisions for individual ...

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).

Over the weekend, 249 United Methodist Churches in eastern North Carolina were allowed to disaffiliate themselves from the church headquarters. Many of the churches that wanted out were opposed to ...

The United Methodist Church General Conference, which is the international legislative assembly for the denomination that meets every four years, will take place April 22 - May 3 in Charlotte. The ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Members of the Cassidy United Methodist Church are at peace after Saturday’s vote went through for them to disaffiliate from the Holston Conference. “There’s a peace that has ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — More than 100 Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia churches are among 264 that have officially split with the United Methodist Church (UMC) Saturday at a called special ...

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 ...