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Delegates from countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe will vote on certain proposals that could alter the Book of Discipline and Social Principles.

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 splintering over LGBTQ+ rights.

The United Methodist Church is facing a more than 40% cut in its four-year budget due to the exodus of thousands of congregations over policies on ordination and LGBTQ issues, according to the church's official news service.

A quarter of the denomination’s churches have left, as the faith divides over L.G.B.T.Q. policies.

SOUTHLAKE, Texas — With 17,000 members, White’s Chapel Methodist Church in Southlake, Texas, offers multiple worship services each weekend along with the kind of attractions that only the largest houses of worship can boast: a coffee shop, an indoor playground, a Christmas festival with pony rides and fireworks, and near-daily opportunities for volunteering and socializing. On Sunday mornings, a small white bulldog named Wesley, after the founder of Methodism, roams the campus with...

Amid wave of churches in U.S. leaving UMC, churches outside U.S. largely still undecided amid logistical challenges and "regionalization" proposal.

James Murdoch's pet dog Storm attacked a dog outside his home in Braco, just over a year after he was served with a Dog Control Notice.

More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations -- a fifth of the U.S. total -- have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nations second-largest Protestant denomination.

The United Methodist Church has lost 20% of U.S. congregations in schism over LGBTQ rules