The future of the United Methodist Church in the United States and around the world could be determined as 862 voting delegates gather Tuesday at the UMC Grand Conference amid historic conflict over ...

An effort to remove anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions at the UMC General Conference emerged in response to decades of traditionalist legislative wins. While also removing anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions, progressive ...

The United Methodist Church General Conference, which is the international legislative assembly for the denomination that meets every four years, will take place April 22 - May 3 in Charlotte. The ...

In a historic vote, delegates at the 11-day United Methodist Church General Conference in Charlotte, NC, approved a vote to regionalize the denomination Thursday. This vote gives the United Methodist ...

United Methodist delegates from Alabama converged in Charlotte on Tuesday for the start of the United Methodist General Conference, the denomination’s worldwide policy-making meeting that continues ...

BRIDGETON — Several United Methodist churches in South Jersey who disagree with new, progressive policies on same-sex marriages and gay clergy say the state conference is making it too difficult to ...

Hundreds of United Methodists will gather in Charlotte, N.C., in the next two weeks to make big decisions on the religious denomination’s policies, finances, inclusiveness and future. The ...

United Methodists from around the state gathered at the Annual Conference in Covington, Kentucky, last week. There were moments of celebration, frustration and a wrestling to articulate a clear ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has made a ruling affecting 15 cases in the continuing legal saga of churches suing to leave the United Methodist Church and take their property with them. The cases involved ...

More than 100 churches recently left the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church without the usual attention that hundreds of departing congregations across the nation have received in ...

April 22 (UPI) --The United Methodist Church is opening its General Conference, on Tuesday in North Carolina, to reshape the country's largest Protestant denomination in the hopes of slowing historic ...