A group of African delegates to The United Methodist Church General Conference have denounced the recent votes to allow for same-sex marriage and noncelibate LGBT clergy, accusing the UMC establishment for failing to properly invite 70 African delegates in time for them to travel to the General Conference.

The United Methodist Church General Conference voted to drop a ban on funding LGBT advocacy groups and removed a required punishment for pastors who officiate gay weddings after thousands of theologically conservative congregations left the mainline Protestant denomination in the last two years.?

The United Methodist General Conference has voted to remove a decades-old ban on ordaining pastors in romantic same-sex relationships after thousands of conservative congregations left the denomination in recent years.?

The Global Methodist Church has issued an official response to the United Methodist Church's General Conference vote to drop the denomination's decades-old ban on ordaining noncelibate homosexuals and allow the blessing of gay unions.

The United Methodist Church General Conference has voted to remove a statement from its central rulebook that declared that homosexuality was "incompatible with Christian teaching."

The United Methodist Church removed its bans on LGBTQ+ clergy and same-sex weddings during a vote Wednesday that wasn't a surprise but was nevertheless historic due to the body's influence on the culture and the Christian community.

The plan would organize UMC churches in four global regions, with each given more leeway around same-sex marriage and other theological issues.

For the first time in half a century, acceptance of sexual minorities isn’t likely to be the major issue coming before The United Methodist Church’s worldwide legislative assembly next spring. Instead, the looming political fight appears to be how to...The post United Methodists will decide realigning church’s structure, authority in 2024 appeared first on Baptist News Global.

A group of 36 North Carolina-based United Methodist churches are expected to depart the denomination come November.

Members of a United Methodist congregation in Russia were without a church Sunday, April 13, after authorities closed it for running a Sunday School without government permission, the latest in a series of police raids targeting Christian education, Christians said.