RUWA, ZIMBABWE — United Methodist clergy and laity excitedly greeted Zimbabwe bishop Rev. Gift T. Machinga, welcoming him and his vision for the Southern African nation. Machinga, elected in March, is ...
RUWA, ZIMBABWE — Before 637 delegates began a three-day legislative gathering to decide on critical legislation for the future of the United Methodist Church, they sat for fellowship under a large ...
United Methodist Church recently ratified landmark restructuring giving regions outside U.S. more say. Many call it the "decolonizing" of the denomination after costly splintering. The Tennessean ...
The decision by the United Methodist Church's global general conference to embrace homosexuality has divided the church in Zimbabwe, with former leader Reverend Forbes Matonga and a handful of elders ...
United Methodist Church recently ratified landmark restructuring giving regions outside U.S. more say. Many call it the "decolonizing" of the denomination after costly splintering. The Tennessean, ...
The Tennessean - USA Today Network dispatched reporters to Zimbabwe as part of a reporting project on the United Methodist Church in advance of results on vote to restructure denomination. UMC ...
“The United Methodist Church is not going to die here,” Mwadiwa said. The splintering in the denomination is just the latest obstacle for United Methodism in Zimbabwe, and that it’s working to ...
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. RUWA, ZIMBABWE — United Methodist clergy and laity excitedly greeted Zimbabwe bishop Rev. Gift T. Machinga, welcoming him and his ...
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. MUTARE, ZIMBABWE — The expecting mothers ushered their roommate Tinashe Mawondo to the hospital at Old Mutare Mission center, mere ...