ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — After nearly 200 years, the last Methodist church in the City of Albany, the Trinity United Methodist Church, will close its doors at the end of June. Nancy Lott said ...

Trinity United Methodist Church is seen on Friday at Lark and Lancaster streets in Albany. The church is planning to close in June. Trinity United Methodist Church is seen on Friday at Lark and ...

The Methodist Church of Simpsonville, as it’s now called, announced its disaffiliation from the United Methodist Church on June 4, according to the lawsuit, and changed its corporate filings to ...

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 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 ...

SINGAPORE – The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) has elected a new bishop. Reverend Philip Lim, 58, was elected the church’s new head at its 13th General Conference Session from Sept 2 to 6.

The Global Methodist Church, made up mostly of churches that disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church, has steered away from some United Methodist practices such as its annual clergy ...

But in the years that followed, some 7,600 U.S. conservative Methodist congregations located mostly in the South left the church over its lack of enforcement of the anti-LGBTQ policies.

Laura Bullard is the senior researcher for Today, Explained, where she has been footnoting and mercilessly splitting hairs since 2021. Last week, hundreds of United Methodist Church (UMC ...

Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop. Oliveto was emotional saying those words aloud. As the church's first openly gay bishop, her path was not always certain.

Jane Graner, an out gay woman and senior pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Duncanville, was also at the vote. “Several of the queer clergy were sitting together, and when we saw the ...

The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its ministers from officiating at same ...