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November 4, 2022 The Rev. Carlo A. Rapanut, assistant to the bishop in the Greater Northwest Episcopal Area, has been elected a bishop by The United Methodist Church’s Western Jurisdiction. He is the first Filipino American bishop in The United Methodist Church, and the first
November 2, 2022 The Rev. David Wilson, assistant to the bishop of the Oklahoma and Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference, has been elected as bishop in The United Methodist Church’s South Central Jurisdictional Conference, becoming the denomination’s first Native American bishop. Delegates elected Wilson, age 59, Nov.
October 27, 2022 Editor’s note: Due to the political climate in Laos and the risks facing church workers, initials are being used in this story to identify sources who are serving in the country or may travel there in the future. For the first time
October 27, 2022 Editor’s note: UM News is using first names only for some of those interviewed due to the stigma associated with incarceration. Attendees of the sixth National Summit on Mass Incarceration were urged to go back into their churches and communities and open
October 26, 2022 Africa University has a major role to play in the development of the continent, said the keynote speaker at the United Methodist institution’s 30th anniversary celebrations. Michael Ugwueke, president and chief executive officer of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis, Tennessee, lauded the
The California-Pacific Conference’s vision: Ending Spiritual and Physical Hunger resonates and inspires the laity and clergy of our area to give, lead, and serve in new and exciting ways. Each week we will share a video from one of our churches that is living into
October 26, 2022 The United Methodist Church’s top court declined to rule on a judicial complaint against a bishop while the church judicial process is ongoing. Leaders in the Western Jurisdiction announced March 9 that they had placed California-Nevada Conference Bishop Minerva Carcaño on leave from
October 24, 2022 It will no longer take the Rev. Okamba Katako two hours by foot to get to new church members in his district in Tunda. With a new bicycle purchased through support from Crosspoint Church, a multi-campus United Methodist congregation in Northwest Florida,
October 21, 2022 The United Methodist Committee on Relief has processed more than $17 million so far to help the people of Ukraine cope with the invasion by Russia, said its top executive during the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries’ fall board meeting. At the meeting,
October 21, 2022 The Rev. Dr. Peter Mageto is the fifth vice chancellor of Africa University and will be installed as the first non-Zimbabwean to lead the pan-African United Methodist-related institution during the 30th anniversary celebrations at the university on Oct. 22. He said the role
