Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Annual conferences within the United Methodist Church cannot leave as part of an ongoing schism within the nation's largest ...

This story was first published on July 14, 2026, by FāVS News. Citing dangers to LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities, the Oregon-Idaho Conference of the United Methodist Church voted last month to move ...

Conference leaders say concerns over Idaho laws targeting transgender people contributed to the decision to hold next year’s annual gathering outside the state.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Queen City is set to be the stage for a possibly consequential decision within the United Methodist Church, one of the largest mainline Protestant Christian denominations. For ...

April 22 (UPI) --The United Methodist Church is opening its General Conference, on Tuesday in North Carolina, to reshape the country's largest Protestant denomination in the hopes of slowing historic ...

The Oregon-Idaho Conference of the United Methodist Church voted last month to move next year's annual conference out of ...

Council of Bishops sets out to refocus on the UMC congregations that stay after 2023. United Methodist bishops have proposed a five-day meeting of the denomination’s global decision-making body, the ...

(RNS) — No, an annual conference in the United States can’t just up and leave the United Methodist Church. At least not yet. While the denomination’s Book of Discipline has provisions for individual ...

The United Methodist Church General Conference, which is the international legislative assembly for the denomination that meets every four years, will take place April 22 - May 3 in Charlotte. The ...

United Methodist Church is splintering after debates about sexuality and gender Court rules against conferences, or regional governing bodies, leaving the UMC Individual congregations still allowed to ...