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 ...

The United Methodist Church has about 5.4 million members in the United States, and about 4.6 million in Africa, Europe and the Philippines, according to church figures. In its first reaction ...

The United Methodist Church (UMC) in Africa has reiterated its firm opposition to homosexuality and same-sex marriages, stating these practices conflict with ...

The Kunz family at New McKendree United Methodist Church has been helping a family in Zimbabwe, Africa, obtain visas so they may relocate to America. They came in contact with the Siwela family ...

The United Methodist Church's Council of Bishops, ending a five-day meeting on Friday, April 29, 2022, acknowledged the inevitable breakup of their denomination, ...

“It was disruptive,” says the 26-year-old from Angola, who is studying Education at Africa University, a United Methodist Church-related institution ... A new solar mini-grid at AU, just outside ...

After decades of rancorous debate over the ordination and marriage of LGBTQ United Methodists, a special session of the United Methodist Church’s General Conference and three postponements of a ...

One of the dominant Christian denominations in the U.S., the United Methodist Church, is experiencing a major split. Since 2019, more than 7,000 congregations have received approval to leave the ...

Five United Methodist Churches in Colorado Springs have disaffiliated with the denomination over issues relating to same-sex marriage and ordaining gay clergy. The most recent, the Korean-American ...

"The First United Methodist Church accepts everybody. We don't care who you are, what you've done, who you love," Van Nevel said. "You are welcome here.

Disregard for those church laws is fueling divisions that have already led to the exodus of about 20% of the United Methodist Church's congregations across the U.S. since disaffiliations began in ...