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The Global Methodist Church, a breakaway denomination, gathered for its inaugural legislative assembly in September. That event reflected how a traditionalist insurgency within the UMC has since ...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) ... The conference was scheduled to be held in 2020 but had to be postponed because of the COVID pandemic, international travel challenges, and escalating ...
On January 3, 2020, a group of Methodist leaders proposed a plan to split the United Methodist Church over issues of sexual orientation (particularly same-sex marriage) and create a new traditionalist Methodist denomination; [16] [17] [18] the Global Methodist Church was formed in 2022. [19]
On August 21, 2020, Discipleship Ministries of the United Methodist Church requested that congregations not perform Haas's music, pending an investigation and possible court proceedings. [40] In October 2020, The Archdiocese of Detroit announced that parishes throughout the Archdiocese would cut his music from their repertoire.
There are 142 churches in Iowa that have left the Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church over differing beliefs on same-sex marriage and ordaining openly LGBTQ clergy.
On March 17, 2020, Caldwell pleaded guilty to fraud charges and was sentenced to six years in federal prison. [21] Pastor Caldwell was released Sept 6, 2024 after serving over 3 years of his sentence. According to a statement from the church, "The court found that Caldwell made full restitution to all of the victims.
United Methodist Church administrative staff members Caitlin Congdon, left, Sandeep Kuntam, and Sharah Dass at the Upper Room Chapel Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.
Turano was among a group of far right activists who attacked the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, DC on December 12, 2020. [4] Turano was involved in a violent protest in Los Angeles on July 17, 2021 in connection with the Wi Spa controversy. [5]