The United Methodist Church says they have the authority to close churches who leave the denomination, but several are willing to put that to the test.

Emerging from a period that rocked the United Methodist Church to its core, the Alabama-West Florida UMC Conference gathers in Pensacola.

After nearly 200 years, the last Methodist church in the City of Albany, the Trinity United Methodist Church, will close at the end of June.

Spending deficit and decrease in church attendance leading Trinity United Methodist Church to close in June, officials say.

RICHFIELD — Five generations of Linda Engle’s family worshipped at Richfield United Methodist Church before she and the congregation decided in late December to leave the denomination due to its ...

Pensacola's oldest methodist Church, First UMC of Pensacola, is 204 years old, with stained glass 115 years old. Now those windows shine anew.

A historic downtown Wilmington church that was forced to close last year now has a chance to reopen thanks to a favorable legal ruling.

The Methodist Church of Simpsonville thought it left the United Methodist denomination behind. A new lawsuit demands the church surrender money and property.

The Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas. The school, which was founded by Methodists more than a century ago, is trying to extricate itself from the United Methodist Church. Tamir ...

The Texas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in an ongoing legal saga between the United Methodist Church and Southern Methodist University over who governs the university.

Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the United Methodist Church are set to deliver oral arguments in the Texas Supreme Court on Jan. 15.