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UMC rejects 3 Arkansas churches’ requests to leave denomination

Attendees participate in a worship service at First United Methodist Church of Jonesboro, Arkansas, on July 3, 2022. | YouTube/ First United Methodist Church Jonesboro Arkansas A regional body of The United Methodist Church has voted down the disaffiliation requests of three congregations in Arkansas that want to leave the mainline Protestant denomination amid a […]

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Arkansas

70 Arkansas churches leave UMC over homosexuality debate

The First United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, displays an LGBT rainbow decoration. | Getty Images Seventy congregations in Georgia have decided to leave The United Methodist Church due in part to the mainline Protestant denomination’s ongoing debate over homosexuality. The UMC North Georgia Conference announced last Thursday that 70 congregations representing nine percent […]

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