The United Methodist Church’s General Conference will meet in Charlotte, North Carolina from April 23 to May 4, 2024. Originally scheduled for 2020 and delayed three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Methodist Richardson Medical Center officially opened its new ambulatory surgical center in a ribbon cutting ceremony on Jan. 6, expanding the medical center’s capacity for both major and minor ...

Several Methodist leaders said the third-largest Protestant denomination in the United States is facing a growing divide as conservative clergy push back against liberals they claim are being ...

Just how divided is the United Methodist Church? Many of its 12 million members are engaged in an internal battle that could break up America's second largest Protestant denomination. At issue: ...

This is one of a series of stories related to the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Methodist leader Francis Asbury in the United States. (RNS) — Two and a half centuries ago, Francis Asbury arrived ...

An international group of United Methodist Church members on Jan. 3 announced they had developed a way for members with the traditional perspective, referred to as traditionalists, to leave the church ...

NORTH LIBERTY — For the United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in Iowa and the United States, unity is no longer a given. As factions of conservative and progressive ...

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, ...

In the biggest day yet for the ongoing United Methodist split in Alabama, 198 congregations officially left the denomination after a vote by the North Alabama Conference meeting Saturday at the BJCC ...

Under an agreement to be voted on in May, a new “traditionalist Methodist” denomination would continue to ban same-sex marriage and gay and lesbian clergy. By Campbell Robertson and Elizabeth Dias A ...