The Global Methodist Church, a new, more conservative Methodist denomination, announced Thursday it will officially launch in May, the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the ...

Brian Harkin/Stringer/Getty Images News Since the lawsuit started, a traditionalist offshoot, called the Global Methodist Church, broke away from the denomination to form its own as more conservative ...

Questions of bishops stirred controversy in Costa Rica. Amid the joy of the convening General Conference of the Global Methodist Church as the new denomination ratified and modified the ...

Amid the decline of nearly all U.S. Protestant denominations, both liberal and conservative, the new Global Methodist Church (GMC) has emerged and last week convened its first governing general ...

No one from the Global Methodist Church attended the World Methodist Conference. However, Larry Duggins of the new Methodist Collegiate Church denomination was among the more than 1,000 people at the ...

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 ...

CALEDONIA — Salem Global Methodist Church will hold its annual ice cream social 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, in its Family Center. The church is located at 1640 Salem Road, at the corner of ...

The changes immediately open new doors for LGBTQ members — but over a quarter of U.S. congregations have already left the UMC, and more could follow.

At the United Methodist Church's General Conference, bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages were removed. However, the denomination faces internal strife and declining membership.

A lay leader for the Global Methodist Church, a splinter group that broke off from United Methodists, referred to last week’s United Methodist General Conference as a “debacle” during a ...

Some of those departing congregations left to form the more conservative Global Methodist Church and others decided to become independent. The main reason many of those congregations left the ...

At United Methodist Church General Conference in Charlotte, delegates voted to repeal ban on LGBTQ clergy and officiating of same-sex weddings.