The new elections of two United Methodist Church bishops and appointments for the full roster of 32 across the U.S., though two-thirds the size the group was before a historic splintering in the ...

The United Methodist Church losing a quarter of its churches in five years is just the start. The organization's budget is shrinking, too, as the denomination grapples with the exit of more than 7,600 ...

United Methodist Church leaders from across the world are convening this week near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to discuss the future of a denomination shrunken by schism and preparing for ...

Global Methodist Church Bishop Scott Jones led a workshop for clergy on Thursday for the new denomination’s North Alabama Conference at ClearBranch Methodist Church in Trussville. Afterward, he spoke ...

A United Methodist Church court acquitted a California bishop Friday of all charges in the first trial of one of the church’s bishops in nearly a century. Bishop Minerva Carcaño, the first Latina ...

Thirty-three retired United Methodist bishops have released a statement calling on The United Methodist Church to remove its ban on gay clergy, according to the United Methodist News Service. Nearly ...

A diverse group of representatives from United Methodist advocacy groups with contrasting views and bishops from around the world has collaborated on a proposed agreement for the separation of The ...

Four days after the raid that extracted the Venezuelan leader and his wife and brought them to face federal charges in New ...

The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology. Now, with the approach of its first major ...

Five United Methodist jurisdictions decide on new bishop assignments for the U.S. in the last of a series of major legislative decisions this year for the UMC. More bishops will oversee administration ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A United Methodist Church court acquitted a ...