Patricia A. Davenport and Viviane Thomas-Breitfeld will each lead a regional body in the predominantly white mainline Protestant denomination.

A group of Baltimore congregations is connecting with black farmers to promote healthy eating and economic empowerment.

The bishops recommended removing prohibitions on same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy in the global denomination's Book of Discipline—while allowing new regional rules.

The seminary's Lake Center for Effective Preaching surveyed homiletics professors and chose from more than 800 nominees.

Congregations that might've closed their doors received an influx of Methodists from West Africa and elsewhere.

In portraying Christ’s blackness, he upended the assumptions of a field dominated by white theologians and helped spawn other theories of liberation.

Several priests and aid workers have been kidnapped, and earlier this month a priest was murdered. Conflict in several regions has left millions in need.

Donna L. Barrett is stepping into a top leadership role in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.

The pope said he lacked full information about a bishop, but other Chilean bishops said they told him the truth. He summoned them all for a rare emergency meeting. 

With fewer people carrying cash, churches plan to use special card readers for collecting fees and the offering.