RUWA, ZIMBABWE — United Methodist clergy and laity excitedly greeted Zimbabwe bishop Rev. Gift T. Machinga, welcoming him and his vision for the Southern African nation. Machinga, elected in March, is ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 Central United Methodist Church in Johannesburg, which has been home for thousands of refugees, many from Zimbabwe, is shutting its doors to refugees, on New Year’s eve, leaving an estimated 500 ...

AT 84, Reverend Margret James, the first woman to be ordained a minister in the Methodist Church of Zimbabwe, is making history once again, this time with her memoir, The First and Last. The book, ...

Religious and human rights groups, along with a top UN official, are calling on the Zimbabwe government to end its campaign of evicting the urban poor and destroying their shacks and market stalls. An ...

The decision by the United Methodist Church's global general conference to embrace homosexuality has divided the church in Zimbabwe, with former leader Reverend Forbes Matonga and a handful of elders ...

Following a splintering in one of the most influential mainline Protestant denominations worldwide, the United Methodist Church ratified a historic restructuring that grants more autonomy to United ...

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, ...