Influential from New Jersey to Georgia, he was part of a long tradition among Black clergy of fighting bias and getting out the vote. “No vote, no clout,” he’d say. By Clay Risen Zohran Mamdani’s win ...

The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology. Now, with the approach of its first major ...

Matonga and his allies in other African nations increasingly viewed United Methodism as antithetical to their religious convictions and their African identity. Matonga and other popular traditionalist ...

After the United Methodist Church voted this spring to allow its clergy to marry same-sex couples and lifted its ban on ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy, Methodists around the world watched how the ...

The Liberia Annual Conference (LAC) of The United Methodist Church (UMC) opened the 2026 Africa College of Bishops Meeting with a Thanksgiving Service, marking the start of a week-long gathering of ...

Methodist Church has called for quality and selfless leadership to enable Africans live better and prosperous lives. General Secretary of World Methodist Council, Dr. Ivan Abraham, spoke during this ...

The leaner denomination will focus on international partnerships, but many conservatives in Africa are holding out for the much-delayed 2024 conference vote. Methodist congregations that know their ...

The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology. Now, with the approach of its first major ...

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 ...

(AP) — Today, members from four continents vote at legislative gatherings, serve on boards together, go on mission trips to each others’ countries and are largely governed by the same rules. The ...