United Methodist News Service – Recent Articles

• Fights erupt over West Africa church property
  United Methodist leaders in Nigeria and Liberia are caught in legal battles with the new Global Methodist Church over the ownership of United Methodist properties.
• Growing a new kind of Christian community
  Spring Forest in Hillsborough, North Carolina, is part monastery, part collective farm and part any number of other things.
• Pastor creates the community she longed for as a child
  The Rev. Elaine A. Heath overcame a difficult childhood to make a successful career as a church leader and educator. Her latest incarnation is as the abbess of a new kind of Christian community.
• Church grapples with loss of foreign aid
  United Methodists are feeling the effects of the gutting of U.S. foreign assistance and speaking out about how such aid saves lives.
• Churches confront mass federal layoffs
  Pastoral care, prayer and protests are some of the ways United Methodist congregations are supporting church members and others affected by the Trump administration’s drastic cuts.
• 2025 Sierra Leone Annual Conference
  March 4-9, Freetown, Sierra Leone
• Youth ministries help historic churches stay vital
  St. Mark United Methodist in Chicago and Holman United Methodist in Los Angeles serve their growing communities by empowering young people and providing effective outreach ministries.
• Amid war, central conference practices ‘shalom’
  United Methodists in a region that stretches from North Africa to Poland gathered for a meeting that focused on bringing peace in a time of strife.
• United Methodist hospital staff attacked in Congo
  Armed men invaded two church health centers in eastern Congo, leading to violence and looting.
• United Methodists react to Duterte arrest
  Church leaders and justice advocates in the Philippines say the arrest of the former president is a step toward justice for the thousands who died during his war on drugs.