Churches that still want to leave the United Methodist Church as part of a splintering in the denomination no longer have a procedural way to do so, or at least with their property in tow. A new ...

(RNS) — At a church just outside Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday (Feb. 18), 33 ministers from the Christian Reformed Church in North America stood up to read aloud a declaration, officially ...

Church Street Methodist Church of Selma, the city’s oldest church at 185 years old, this week sued the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church in an effort to keep control of ...

(RNS) — Under the new restructuring plan, called 'regionalization,' the denomination's nine regions will be equal partners with greater freedom to tailor church life to their own customs and ...

Koinonia, planted by Christ Presbyterian Church and partly known for its presence in a majority Black neighborhood, has left the Presbyterian Church in America for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Few legal entanglements complicate the departure, but brings a lot of grief over denominational division. First Christian Reformed Church chose its name for a reason. It’s the oldest Christian ...

A small Maine congregation is suing a regional body of The United Methodist Church, claiming that the mainline denomination is trying to take over its property. Broad Cove Church of Cushing, a small ...