Annual conferences within the United Methodist Church cannot leave as part of an ongoing schism within the nation's largest mainline Protestant denomination, the church's highest court ruled Tuesday.

Catholic women in the United States gathered to urge greater leadership roles for women in the church, even as bishops were discussing the possibility of women deacons at a synod in Rome. Organizers ...

At the third Women of the Church conference for Catholic women leaders, a morning prayer service began with a reading of the Gospel account of Mary of Magdala witnessing the resurrected Jesus outside ...

The Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church filed a lawsuit against five former members of the Cortez United Methodist Church, alleging they improperly transformed the parish into a ...

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the United States' oldest historically Black denomination, launched its General Conference on Tuesday with delegates expected to address racial issues such as ...

Johnny Walker, left, sits with his father, Andy, during the priesthood session of the 189th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Conference Center in ...

The theological fracture within the country's largest mainline Methodist denomination has grown more contentious as a church conference in Georgia has temporarily blocked churches from disaffiliating.

(RNS) — A regional body of the United Methodist Church in Georgia will temporarily block member churches from leaving the denomination, citing the spread of “defamatory” misinformation about the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The future of the United Methodist Church, America’s second-largest Protestant denomination with 7 million members, could hang in the outcome of a conference being held in St. Louis, ...

As he seeks to rise from the ashes with a new congregation in Phoenix, ex-Mars Hill megachurch senior pastor Mark Driscoll will host a "Building a Healthy Church" conference this fall with a lineup of ...

I like going to church; it’s my Father’s house and I like being there. I have sat alone in many church sanctuaries in my life. I enjoy the peacefulness of just being in His presence. When I can quiet ...

A church conference is planning a regional headquarters in a metro office building.