The United Methodist Judicial Court backed up its previous ruling last year that closing a church cannot be used as a back door for allowing a congregation to leave the denomination and take its ...

Trinity United Methodist Church is seen on Friday at Lark and Lancaster streets in Albany. The church is planning to close in June. Trinity United Methodist Church is seen on Friday at Lark and ...

The Methodist Church of Simpsonville, as it’s now called, announced its disaffiliation from the United Methodist Church on June 4, according to the lawsuit, and changed its corporate filings to ...

By Ruth Graham The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a battle over whether Southern Methodist ... of the Mississippi River. Today, the university and the church’s ...

Meanwhile, conservative factions in Texas expressed concerns over the church's apparently lax style for enforcing such bans and formed breakaway denominations including the Global Methodist Church.

SINGAPORE – The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) has elected a new bishop. Reverend Philip Lim, 58, was elected the church’s new head at its 13th General Conference Session from Sept 2 to 6.

The Global Methodist Church, made up mostly of churches that disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church, has steered away from some United Methodist practices such as its annual clergy ...

But in the years that followed, some 7,600 U.S. conservative Methodist congregations located mostly in the South left the church over its lack of enforcement of the anti-LGBTQ policies.

The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its ministers from officiating at same ...

The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on gay clergy Wednesday, marking a historic shift in the church’s stance on homosexuality. The church has long been divided into factions ...

In a meeting on Wednesday, church leaders also voted to allow L.G.B.T.Q. weddings. By Ruth Graham The United Methodist Church ... opportunity in front of us.” Ms. Lawrence noted that not only ...