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Some local United Methodist churches — as well as those across the nation — are voting to break from the traditional United Methodist denomination.

Why do liberals in the United States want Africa to remain United Methodist if the Africans profoundly oppose the liberals’ chief ecclesial agenda of full sexual liberalization?

United Methodist Bishop Gary Mueller, who oversees the denominations churches in Arkansas, will request permission to retire, effective Jan. 1, he announced last week.

A pending separation and changing international composition find The United Methodist Church in a time of rethinking what it means to be a church, and a global church at that.

With the United Methodist Church on the brink of schism, the founder of the denomination’s largest U.S. megachurch is coming to Northwest Arkansas next week to urge unity in the cause of Christ.

(RNS) — African bishops claimed the Africa Initiative has ‘lost its original goal of helping The United Methodist Church in Africa’ and instead is ‘working with Wesleyan Covenant Association to destroy our United Methodist Church.’

An idea that began with providing chickens for income generation has grown to new collaboration and shared dreams for the Indiana Conference, Wesley Foundation of Purdue University and the Zimbabwe Episcopal Area. Kudzai Chingwe reports from Harare, Zimbabwe, for UM News.

The United Methodists are not so united these days. The nation's third-largest denomination is teetering on a schism over the role of the LGBTQ community....

The United Methodist Council of Bishops is preparing to welcome new episcopal leaders who will be coming aboard as the denomination faces challenges unseen in their lifetimes.

East Africa Area Bishop Daniel Wandabula joined hundreds of congregants in celebrating the new sanctuary for First United Methodist Church Moheto. In 2019, the church voted to become the first congregation in Africa to identify as reconciling.