One-fifth of United Methodist congregations in the United States ... Church, while others will be independent or join different denominations. The UMC is a worldwide denomination. American ...

The United Methodist Church ... between 2019 and 2023 represented 24% of the denomination’s membership across the United States, according to the report. Disaffiliations in the church's southern ...

which had long been the largest membership United Methodist Church in Alabama with more than 7,000 members. Frazer joined the Free Methodist Church, a more theologically conservative denomination ...

The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the ...

this meeting of the church’s legislative body comes at a critical time for the United States’ second-largest Protestant denomination. In 2022, conservative Methodists announced a break with ...

Another portion of the Book of Discipline states that United Methodist churches, agencies and institutions are held “in trust for the benefit of the denomination.” The Methodist Church of ...

In fact, many of those countries now consider the United States ... to tell that church what to do now is not a good thing.” The denomination has cited its declining membership and reduced ...

Bering Church in Houston ... for electing bishops in eight states including Texas, filed a lawsuit in 2019 alleging that SMU wrongly tried to cut ties with the denomination.

The conference, which oversees churches in eight states ... Church, broke away from the denomination to form its own as more conservative congregations grew leery the church would reverse course on ...

Catholics are one of the largest religious groups in the United States, outnumbering any single Protestant denomination. The U.S. has more ... to the Vatican’s 2021 Statistical Yearbook of the Church.

With the new year came the quiet end for a landmark church that has stood for nearly 150 years in downtown Dover. Opened on Blackwell Street in 1876 and expanded in 1907, the First United ...

Christianity Today played things safe, noting that Walz had upset conservative Christian leaders during his time in office in Minnesota and carefully explaining the difference between the ELCA and the ...