The United Methodist Church is splitting with more conservative churches forming the Global Methodist Church. Organization that formed the new Methodist denomination meets days after new denomination ...

Dozens of Iowa churches are ending their affiliation with the United Methodist Church after a rift developed over Biblical teachings. During a conference last month, the leaders of more than 80 Iowa ...

United Mercer Interfaith Organization (UMIO) holds its 10th Annual Unity Gathering on Sunday, June 25. Turning Point Methodist Church located at 15 S.Broad St. will host the 5-7 p.m. event that ...

The window that opened in 2019 to allow United Methodist churches to depart their embattled denomination closes in a week or so, at the end of the year, and at this late hour, approximately one-fourth ...

SIMPSONVILLE — An Upstate church faces a lawsuit from the denomination it tried to leave last year, with the state organization claiming it still owns the downtown Simpsonville building despite the ...

JONESBORO -- Members of the state's second-largest United Methodist congregation voted Sunday evening to break away from the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination. The vote was 944 to 412, ...

United Methodist Church leaders are meeting in St. Louis beginning Saturday to decide whether to lift a ban on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex weddings. The topic has become increasingly contentious in ...

There has been a seismic shift within the United Methodist Church after it voted to lift bans on LGBTQ+ clergy and same-sex marriages. The move led some 7,600 conservative Methodist congregations, ...