But there has only been more unrest since then, with the Cote D’Ivoire Conference leaving the UMC. Then, Nigerian bishop John Wesley Yohanna left the UMC by resigning from his post, escalating ...

LUBBOCK — For the first time, hundreds of clergy and laypeople from dozens of churches in West Texas gathered Friday and Saturday as Global Methodists, ushering in a new era for Methodism in the ...

Most of those 145 Northwest Texas Conference churches that left the UMC opted to join the GMC West Plains Conference, which geographically stretches from the top of the Panhandle down into the Big ...

Robertson said the conference was not using the term disaffiliation this time, but departures. Since 2022, more than 330 churches have left the UMC’s North Georgia Conference.

United Methodist Church General Conference, the denomination's top legislative assembly, is gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina between April 23 - May 3. An unexpected early decision on ...

The United Methodist Church’s General Conference generally gathers delegates from across the globe every four years. Delegates were expected to take up a proposal to split the denomination ...

“After a months-long process of disaffiliation from the North Texas Conference and The United Methodist Church, First Methodist – Irving, Texas is now part of The Global Methodist Church ...

In an email sent Wednesday (Dec. 28), the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church announced a “pause” on disaffiliations in the region until the United Methodist Church’s ...

The Global Methodist Church, a new, more conservative Methodist denomination, announced Thursday it will officially launch in May, the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the ...