MUNCIE, Ind. − United Methodist Churches of Indiana is perhaps more united but smaller after 174 congregations separated from the UMC Thursday night during the denomination's annual state conference ...

A gathering of the United Methodist Church’s top legislative body next month will be historic for the nation’s largest mainline Protestant denomination, but not in the way many originally anticipated.

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A local judge ruled that a congregation has the right to leave the United Methodist Church without a fight. Mt. Bethel Church in Cobb County was one of the first churches to blaze ...

What some are calling a schism in the United Methodist Church over the issue of homosexuality is also affecting churches in the Pacific Northwest, although to a lesser degree. As many as 30 churches ...

A small white wood-paneled church in a rural field beside a graveyard United Methodist congregations are working through a complex process brought about by fears over possible changes in its doctrines ...

A number of churches in the greater Tampa Bay region, including Sylvan Abbey Methodist Church in Clearwater, are breaking away from the United Methodist Church over divisions in doctrine and same-sex ...

Nearly five dozen Michigan churches plan to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church amid a rift over LGBTQ+ issues that has fractured one of the country's largest Protestant denominations. Mark ...

Forty-three Wisconsin churches could see their wishes come true Friday to leave the United Methodist Church, the latest local development in a denomination-wide schism. More than 4,000 congregations ...

John Philip Koeller's family has an interesting lineage connected to Alsace, France, a region that was at one time part of the German Empire. His great-grandfather took part in the French invasion of ...