Meanwhile, conservative factions in Texas expressed concerns over the church's apparently lax style for enforcing such bans and formed breakaway denominations including the Global Methodist Church.

Plans for a new takeaway in Bacup have been stopped due to high obesity levels in the area. Planning permission was refused to open a branch of Woody's Pizza on St James Street in Bacup. The business ...

Almost 50 objections have been submitted to a council over the construction of a waste transfer station close to a town centre. Plans to build the waste facility were submitted by Rossendale ...

UMC bishops and finance agency stops funding to Côte d’Ivoire churches amid process to leave denomination, and well-known Liberian minister suspended for conspiring with breakaway Methodist group.

A pizza takeaway firm has seen its plans to expand into Bacup thwarted due to the town's high rate of childhood obesity. Woody’s Pizza, which has sites in the Calderdale towns of Todmorden and ...

Ilona Zsigmond, of Moorlands Terrace, Bacup, passed away peacefully from frailty on December ... She did a lot of charity work with Central Methodist and Stacksteads Methodist Churches and helped out ...

A unity caucus, United Methodist Africa Forum, issued a statement Dec. 20 celebrating the election of Emmanuel, who was greeted by a crowd of 500 people upon his return Dec. 10 from the West Africa ...