One Sunday in May 1917, on the first day of services at the newly built First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens, the congregation celebrated with a processional and mortgage burning.

The latest lawsuit continues a flurry of legal activity between congregations and the United Methodist denomination in ...

Nearly a year after the United Methodist Church ended years of speculation and rewrote its policies on LGBTQ+ rights, the ...

No charges have been filed, and further actions by DECAL will be decided by Jan. 25, 2025. ALPHARETTA, Ga. - Little Sunshine’s Playhouse and Preschool in Alpharetta has been ordered to close by ...

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — An Alpharetta childcare center has been forced to close its doors for a state investigation after a one-year-old died days after choking at the center. “Whenever we’re ...

The dispute, which some critics say tests the church’s autonomy, reached the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday for arguments. By Ruth Graham The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on ...

A contentious, six-year legal battle between the United Methodist Church and Southern Methodist University is coming before the Texas Supreme Court today. The controversy centers around who maintains ...

The Alpharetta office park deal is another example of how far some office property values have fallen. An Atlanta firm has scored another deeply discounted suburban office park that had been on ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A winter storm warning was in effect for north Georgia, including all of metro Atlanta, from 5 a.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday. Areas in the winter storm warning ...

Three people have been confirmed dead following a violent clash that erupted between worshippers of the United Methodist Church in Nigeria (UMCN) and the Global Methodist Church (GMC) in Taraba State.