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Jan 13 2020
News
United Methodist Church Proposes Split
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On Friday, January 3rd, global leaders of the United Methodist Church released a plan called "A Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separation".The plan details a future in which conservative churches Abridge News
Jan 03 2020
News
United Methodist Church Proposes Historic Split Over Divisions On Gay Marriage
Leaders of the United Methodist Church announced a plan Friday for the church to split over divisions on gay marriage.
The leaders announced a plan Friday that will establish a “traditionalist Methodist” denomination that will continue to ban same-sex marriage and the ordination of gay or lesbian clergy members. The move comes after 53% of Methodist church leaders and lay members said
The Daily Caller
Jun 06 2022
News
Dozens of Georgia churches split from United Methodist Church over LGBTQ issues
Seventy churches in Georgia split from the United Methodist Church (UMC) last week largely over LGBTQ issues, marking the latest in a growing divide within the third-largest Protestant denomination in the United States.
The North Georgia Conference voted last Thursday to allow the churches, most of which were in rural areas, to disaffiliate from the UMC. The process for disaffiliation
Fox News (Online News)
Nov 23 2022
News
Nearly one-third of churches split from regional Methodist church body amid ongoing schism about sexuality
Hundreds of churches split from a regional body of the United Methodist Church (UMC) over the weekend as the second-largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. continues to hemorrhage congregations.
Delegates at a special session of the UMC's North Carolina Conference voted 957-165 on Saturday to approve the departure of 249 conservative congregations in the regional body that wanted to
Fox News (Online News)
Apr 29 2017
News
Methodist High Court Rejects First Openly Gay Bishop’s Consecration
The United Methodist Church’s highest court has ruled that the consecration of its first openly gay bishop violated church law, compounding a bitter rift over homosexuality that has brought the 13-million-member denomination to the brink of schism.
New York Times (News)
Jul 19 2022
Opinion
Church and State Can Unite on Education
The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is unequivocally the main event of the recent SCOTUS decisions for the pro-family right, but those who hope to create a policy agenda that empowers parents shouldn’t neglect the undercard.
In particular, they should pay attention to last month’s SCOTUS decision in Carson v. Makin, which confirmed by a 6-3 vote that religious organizations have the
The American Conservative
Dec 21 2022
News
Report: Attacks on Christian Churches Nearly Triple in Four Years
Attacks on Christian churches have nearly tripled in the last four years, according to a 84-page report released by Family Research Council (FRC) in December.
Between January 2018 and September 2022, FRC found 420 documented acts of hostility against 397 separate churches in the United States.
Many cases included incidences of vandalism, bomb threats, arson, and gun-related
Breitbart News
Apr 11 2020
Background
Religion in the United States
Religion in the United States is diverse with Christianity being the majority religion. Various religious faiths have flourished within the United States. A majority of Americans report that religion plays a very important role in their lives, a proportion unique among developed countries.[2] Freedom of religion in the United States is guaranteed in the First Amendment to the United States
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