The Latest Breaking News from the United Methodist Church

Tragic violence erupts in Nigeria as religious schism over LGBTQ bans escalates between Methodist factions.

Leaders of the United Methodist Church have expressed regret over last week’s decision by the branch in Côte d’Ivoire to leave the union following the church’s decision to repeal a long-standing ban on LGBTQ+ clergy but pledged to accept it

Reaction among Catholics around the world is sharply divided over the Vatican's recent declaration giving priests more leeway to bless same-sex couples

The United Methodist Church has been undergoing a major upheaval as more than 7,000 congregations across the country decided to leave the denomination

A United Methodist Church court has acquitted a California bishop of all charges in the first trial of one of the church’s bishops in nearly a century

The largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S. is shrinking due to disputes over LGBTQ+ clergy and same-sex marriage. About 20% of United Methodist congregations have left in recent years.

On the first day of the Kentucky annual conference of the United Methodist Church in Owensboro, more than half of them disaffiliated. A Lexington pastor whose congregation remained in the fold shares his thoughts on what led some to leave and others to stay.

Thousands of United Methodist congregations have been voting on whether to stay or quit one of the nation’s largest denominations amid intractable debates over theology and the role of LGBTQ people