Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20 church property lawsuits against the United Methodist Church that were still in the Alabama court system as 2025 ...

GREENVILLE — After months of waiting, a statewide conference in its backyard and multiple lawsuits, former United Methodist churches have an answer on their next steps for formal separation. Eleven ...

Sixty-eight Arkansas congregations that left the United Methodist Church have joined the Global Methodist Church, a denomination formed in the midst of the breakup as a landing place for those leaving ...

As the United Methodist Church went through a schism that resulted in more than half of all churches in Alabama leaving in the past three years, weekly attendance reports to the North Alabama ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - Several United Methodist Churches are listed as permanently closing their doors following the annual conference meeting of the United Methodist Churches for Alabama and West ...

The top court of the United Methodist Church has ruled against a practice in Mississippi that was allowing churches to leave the denomination with property. The United Methodist Judicial Court backed ...

A local Methodist conference criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement for its presence at an east Charlotte church this week. Armed agents “staged an operation” at Central United Methodist ...

Multiple South Carolina churches are taking their parent denomination to the S.C. Supreme Court to try to get out from under its jurisdiction and keep their church holdings intact. The lawsuit was ...

The NC Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the congregation of Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church, which was closed last year by the North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church. The ...

SIMPSONVILLE — An Upstate church faces a lawsuit from the denomination it tried to leave last year, with the state organization claiming it still owns the downtown Simpsonville building despite the ...