Before the service starts on Sunday morning at San Diego Reformed Church, the building fills with the sound of singing. Sean ...

and lay on the scripture: “Put up with one another” (Col. 3:13). I may be wasting my breath. But here’s my pastor’s pitch for why schism from the United Methodist Church is a bad idea. After just 40 ...

The GMC’s creation in 2022 resulted from the schism of what was once America’s third largest religious body, the United Methodist Church. More than 7,900 congregations, with their property ...

(RNS) — The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series ... publish their own hymnal and rituals, including rites for marriage; and establish its own judicial courts.

Its members included Montgomery minister Ralph Abernathy; Andrew Young, a Congregationalist minister from New Orleans; James Lawson from the United Methodist Church; and Wyatt T. Walker ...

United Methodist leaders see all this very differently, of course. And those who stayed in the denomination can offer alternative accounts of what happened. But among those who left, there is a ...

Splintering in the United Methodist Church following disagreements over theology and church policy — including dealing with LGBTQ+ rights — fueled exodus of thousands of churches. Many ...

This year marks the first Christmas since almost 40% of churches in the Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church officially disaffiliated from — in a word, left — the ...

Download the MDG Gap Task Force Report 2015 Development cannot be sustainable if it does not address the challenge of climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Member ...

The term United Nations, originally suggested by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was first used in the Declaration by United Nations, signed in Washington, D.C., on 1 ...

Develop and implement a coordinated communications strategy for the country/countries they serve, together with the United Nations Country Team and local United Nations partners, to publicise priority ...

Our vision is a world where every person forced to flee can build a better future. Formally known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR was established by the General Assembly of ...