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The split, over acceptance of LGBTQ members, has caused a quarter of churches under the UMC to leave, splitting into the Global Methodist Church.

Statewide, 43 Methodist churches chose to disaffiliate from the larger church this year, according to Lisa Wink, director of communications for the UMC’s Wisconsin Conference.

Statewide, 43 Methodist churches chose to disaffiliate from the larger church this year, according to Lisa Wink, director of communications for the UMC’s Wisconsin Conference.

The vast major are conservative-leaning churches responding to what they see as the United Methodists' failure to enforce bans on same-sex marriage and the ordaining of openly LGBTQ persons.

Statewide, 43 Methodist churches chose to disaffiliate from the larger church this year, according to Lisa Wink, director of communications for the UMC’s Wisconsin Conference.

Jason Benell: Time and again, sectarian religious organizations have supported efforts to undermine Iowans' human rights and civil rights.

Seventy-four congregations in Florida have left the United Methodist Church over the denomination's longstanding debate over its stance on homosexuality.

Divisions over LGBTQ+ issues are costing the United Methodist Church's North Georgia Conference 261 of its nearly 700 congregations. In a vote Saturday, the conference approved...

The looming political fight appears to be how to realign the structure and authority of the UMC by reorganizing the global denomination into roughly continental regions, including the United States.

Salvage crews used a crane to remove nearly a dozen bells that had been a fixture in a tower at an Endicott church for more than a century.