From what started as members of a Milton church noticing discrepancies in their year-end tax documents, police are now searching for thieves they say have been stealing checks from the church mailbox.

When two denominations merged in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church, the plaintiffs say the rules adopted at the time allowed existing churches to maintain control of their own property.

For Sally Hanneman, church giving has gone high-tech. The 47-year-old physical therapist used to scramble to write a check as the collection plate approached on Sunday mornings. Not anymore. Now ...

Parishioners at the Light of the Canyon United Methodist Church in Anaheim Hills can now make their tithes through automatic bank account deductions. The church began offering electronic funds ...

Homeless man asks church not to be mad about tithing 18 cents by: Taylor Shaw. ... We flipped it over and the note was there,” Pastor Patrick Hamrick of First United Methodist Church told ABC ...

Amid disagreements over theology and church policy, including dealing with LGBTQ rights, property ownership has become a major dispute within the splintering of the United Methodist Church.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WKRN) – A note written on the back of an envelope and left in a North Carolina church’s offering plate has gone viral. Inside the envelope was 18 cents with a note from an ...

Carpenter said they used to send $11,392.00 to the United Methodist Church every 24 months. That's about $5,700 a year, and about $500 a month. But, those costs were getting to be too much for a ...

It’s official. These churches across the state will go their own way after the United Methodist Church approved the separation Tuesday. The split was largely over LGBTQ issues.

Conservative leaders within the United Methodist Church unveiled plans Monday to form a new denomination, the Global Methodist Church, with a doctrine that does not recognize same-sex marriage.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- For Sally Hanneman, church giving has gone high-tech. The 47-year-old physical therapist used to scramble to write a check as the collection plate approached on Sunday mornings.