The Global Methodist Church has launched its pioneer church in Uganda, marking a significant milestone in the country's spiritual landscape. Bishop Carolyne Moore, overseeing five conferences ...

The Global Methodist Church, a new, more conservative Methodist denomination, announced Thursday it will officially launch in May, the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the ...

Brian Harkin/Stringer/Getty Images News Since the lawsuit started, a traditionalist offshoot, called the Global Methodist Church, broke away from the denomination to form its own as more conservative ...

Some of those churches have remained independent, and others have joined the new Global Methodist Church, a rival denomination that says it will not ordain or marry gay people. One justice ...

Correction, Jan. 3, 2025 at 10:27 a.m.: An earlier version of this story incorrectly named one of the churches that was created after the United Methodist Church split. It is called the Global ...

Questions of bishops stirred controversy in Costa Rica. Amid the joy of the convening General Conference of the Global Methodist Church as the new denomination ratified and modified the ...

As all this has been developing, the Global Methodist Church—a theologically conservative breakaway denomination—also has been getting off the ground. The Global Methodist Church, organized by ...

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 what about the Global Methodist Church – which started May 1, 2022 and welcomed thousands of former United Methodists who left to join the new denomination within the past two years?

Oliveto said. That is, until this year's United Methodist General Conference, the church's global legislative body, voted to overturn every ban on LGBTQ people. The historic changes include a new ...

Willimon said even conservative breakaway groups like the new Global Methodist Church, comprised of many former UMC congregations, face similar challenges with predominately white, aging memberships.

Some of those departing congregations left to form the more conservative Global Methodist Church and others decided to become independent. The main reason many of those congregations left the ...