(Shreveport, La) -- Centenary College a little empty since school let out, until over 1,000 delegates arrived on campus. The college welcomes more than 1,000 United Methodist delegates from throughout ...

(RNS) — No, an annual conference in the United States can’t just up and leave the United Methodist Church. At least not yet. While the denomination’s Book of Discipline has provisions for individual ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United Methodist Church’s top legislative assembly got off to an earlier-than-expected start when it swiftly approved key measures to refashion the denomination’s global ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KWWL)- Nearly 60 Iowa churches are parting ways with the United Methodist Church. In a special session, the Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church approved ...

(RNS) As the United Methodist Church's season of annual conference meetings approaches, a moment of reckoning looms with the denomination’s long-debated conflict over homosexuality – whether to ordain ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- More than 200 Methodist churches in Texas are looking to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church in a multi-step process that could receive official approval Saturday at ...

The Arkansas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church has ratified the disaffiliation requests for all 67 congregations that wished to break from the church. The disaffiliation agreement for ...

More than 250 Kentucky congregations of the United Methodist Church have split from their parent denomination, effectively shrinking the sect's size to just over half of what it was in the state. A ...