NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S., lost about a quarter of its total churches between 2019 and 2023 due to disaffiliations ...

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An Athens church on a list of “closed” houses of worship tells FOX54 it is “alive, well, and thriving” as an independent congregation. On Friday, the Northern Alabama Conference of the ...

Following historic splintering in denomination, United Methodist Church saw major policy and administrative changes this year. As part of that, many U.S. bishops received new assignments. United ...

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.

The Bible plays an important part in the worship of the Methodist Church as well as in the lives of individual members. This is symbolised by an open Bible being placed on the communion table.

About 150 people to bring dogs, cats, fish and horses to the eighth annual “Blessing of ...

Prior disaffiliation report: United Methodist Church disaffiliation movement in US largely white, Southern & male-led: New report shows Demographics. The UMC, the largest mainline Protestant ...

Bishop Scott Jones speaks during an oral hearing before the United Methodist Judicial Council, the denomination’s top court, on May 22, 2018, in Evanston, Illinois.

ATHENS, Ga. — The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to allow 261 congregations to break from the denomination amid a schism over theological differences and the role ...