A worldwide vote in the United Methodist Church has occurred throughout 2025 on a plan to restructure the denomination, with denomination leadership expected to announce final results soon. The plan ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. RUWA, ZIMBABWE — United Methodist clergy and laity excitedly greeted Zimbabwe bishop Rev. Gift T. Machinga, welcoming him and his ...

United Methodist Church recently ratified landmark restructuring giving regions outside U.S. more say. Many call it the "decolonizing" of the denomination after costly splintering. The Tennessean, ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. RUWA, ZIMBABWE — Before 637 delegates began a three-day legislative gathering to decide on critical legislation for the future of the ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Leaders of the United Methodist Church expressed regret over last week's decision by the branch in Ivory Coast to leave the union following the church's decision to repeal a ...

“The United Methodist Church is not going to die here,” Mwadiwa said. The splintering in the denomination is just the latest obstacle for United Methodism in Zimbabwe, and that it’s working to ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. MUTARE, ZIMBABWE — The expecting mothers ushered their roommate Tinashe Mawondo to the hospital at Old Mutare Mission center, mere ...