CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United Methodist Church’s top legislative assembly has dealt with most of the seemingly contentious proposals dealing with LGBTQ+ rights and restructuring the denomination in the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United Methodist Church’s top policymaking assembly illustrated on Monday the legislative slog the 700-plus delegates are encountering. On the first day of the second and final ...

The theme of the United Methodist general conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, emblazoned on banners, tote bags, and name tags, was a snippet of Psalm 46: “Know that I am God.” At the end of the ...

The United Methodist General Conference voted on Tuesday to ask for less money from local churches to support the national and international denominational structure. The proposed $353 million budget ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — United Methodist delegates began making historic changes in their policies on sexuality on Tuesday — voting without debate to reverse a series of anti-LGBTQ policies. The delegates ...

A lay leader for the Global Methodist Church, a splinter group that broke off from United Methodists, referred to last week’s United Methodist General Conference as a “debacle” during a meeting of the ...

First United Methodist Church congregants pray for members attending the United Methodist General Conference, including Tracy Merrick, left, a delegate representing Western Pennsylvania, The Rev.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church's longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" ...

The United Methodist Church has garnered criticism for a plan to possibly cut funding to the 1-million-member Côte d'Ivoire Conference, which voted to leave the denomination earlier this year before ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of their first legislative gathering in five years — one that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting ...