The conference and churches have been ... has steered away from some United Methodist practices such as its annual clergy appointment system. United Methodists “fix” appointments annually ...

The United Methodist Church losing a quarter of its ... staff or districts – a local grouping of churches within an annual ...

South Carolina United Methodist churches thought they had time to decide if they wanted to leave over LGBTQ issues. But a ...

“We had our disagreements with the leadership of the United Methodist Church, and that was the main reason why we disaffiliated,” he said. “It was the leadership, at the annual conference ...

United Methodists' new battleground is in Africa, where conferences are beginning to vote on regionalization, granting ...

Monrovia — Members of the United Methodist Church (UMC), Liberia Annual Conference protest here against same-sex marriage, calling for the removal or resignation of Bishop Samuel Jerome Quire ...

United Methodist bishops said they warned their Global Methodist counterparts on Nov. 22 that tensions had reached a breaking ...