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 ...

Some churches that were waiting to see what the United Methodist Church would decide on same-sex marriage might decide to leave after the April 2024 general conference, depending on the final ...

When I think about the United Methodist churches throughout our great state ... to do so through a special clause agreed on by the international body called General Conference. The division dates back ...

The United Methodist General Conference voted in May 2024 to reverse its longstanding bans on gay marriage and ordination of LGBTQ clergy. Congregations that were opposed to that change but not ...

“Because of these choices on a larger level.” The choices Love refers to are the decisions by the United Methodist General Conference last spring. Love added that while the departure of those ...

Two area churches are among the United Methodist congregations getting new pastors in July. Bishop L. Jonathan Holston of the North Alabama Conference and Alabama-West Florida Conference announced ...

Liberian lawmakers are overseeing a mediation between the United Methodist Church and the Global Methodist Church over disputes between the two denominations over property and assets ...

The decision by the United Methodist Church's global general conference to embrace homosexuality has divided the church in Zimbabwe, with former leader Reverend Forbes Matonga and a handful of ...