Facing a shortage of qualified pastors and less interest by younger generations in religious institutions, a year-old church with a unique name in Allegany County is attempting to set a new path ...

The Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church will vote Saturday on the final round of congregations seeking to leave the denomination, a slate of 74 churches. The conference, based in ...

The theological fracture within the country's largest mainline Methodist denomination has grown more contentious as a church conference in Georgia has temporarily blocked churches from disaffiliating.

The General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Charlotte is the first one that Robin Dease is attending as a bishop. And it’s likely the last one that retired Bishop Sharon Zimmerman Rader, ...

(RNS) — The United Methodist Church has delayed its General Conference meeting for a third time due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. In response, some conservative United Methodists have announced ...

A top United Methodist Church commission met Thursday to discuss yet again postponing the denomination's General Conference in late August and into early September. The regularly scheduled meeting of ...

Seventy churches in Georgia split from the United Methodist Church (UMC) last week largely over LGBTQ issues, marking the latest in a growing divide within the third-largest Protestant denomination in ...

Bishop Frank J. Beard, who leads the Illinois Great Rivers Conference of the United Methodist Church, will return to active ministry Jan. 1 following two major eye surgeries. Beard, who suffers from ...