The United Methodist Church’s top court has upheld much of the Traditional Plan approved earlier this year, continuing the global denomination’s ban on the ordination and marriage of its LGBTQ members ...

ST. LOUIS — One of the largest Christian denominations in the country has rejected a plan to allow openly gay pastors, and same-sex marriage. That was the decision from the United Methodist Church ...

WEBVTT NIGEL: THIS AFTERNOON THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HAS DECIDED. -- HAS DECIDED IT WILL CONTINUE ON IT’S TRADITIONAL PATH. GABBY: LAST NIGHT, AT A SPECIAL CONFERENCE OF THE WORLD WIDE CHURCH, 55% ...

The United Methodist Church was formed in 1968 as a merger between Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church. It was only a few years later that the church started to experience ...

As a gay pastor in the United Methodist Church, the Rev. Anna Blaedel was devastated when church leaders voted to strengthen a ban on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage in February. The former ...

(UPDATED) Traditional Plan survives legal review, but could still set the UMC on path to division over gay marriage and clergy as Judicial Council also approves exit plan for dissenting churches.

The Methodist Church in Ghana has launched an initiative to promote national cohesion and development through the merging of Christian faith and traditional beliefs. To that aim, the church’s Northern ...

Ten years ago, Benedict XVI issued a new decree that would create three new Catholic dioceses with English Christian patrimony called personal ordinariates and they would also receive Anglican, ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — The United Methodist Church’s top court has upheld much of the Traditional Plan approved earlier this year, continuing the global denomination’s ban on the ordination and marriage of ...