JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Pentecostal church in South Africa celebrated Easter Sunday with mass wedding ceremonies for around 3,000 people, with many of them entering into polygamous marriages.

Have a look here: St Michael and St George Cathedral 3. Trinity Methodist Church, Kimberley, South Africa Trinity Methodist Church is a pretty historical and architectural landmark in Kimberley.

Only a few of the country's religious groups have adopted policies that are more favourable towards the community, among them the Dutch Reformed Church and the Methodist Church of Southern Africa ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Leaders of the United Methodist Church are holding their first international conference in nearly a decade this week, tackling such divisive issues as gay marriage, ordaining ...

Malinga is “the first woman to take a role in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa”. She said she was honoured to receive this outstanding recognition “on this special day of celebrating ...

In 1999, she was inducted as a bishop, the first female in the Methodist Church in Southern Africa. Last year, she handed over the reins to presiding bishop to Pumla Nzimande.

t is impossible to think about the ANC without thinking about both the church and traditional authorities in South Africa, considering the role that these have played in the formation of the party ...

Home to 236 million of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, Africa accounted for more than half of the 16.2 million people who joined the church worldwide in 2021.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Matthew Wilson, Associate Professor of political science at Southern Methodist University about the divide in United Methodist Church over sexuality and gender identity.

In the South and Midwest, the UMC lost hundreds of churches this year. Nearly 500 exited the denomination in Tennessee, along with 750 in Texas, 672 in North Carolina, 623 in Georgia, 598 in Ohio ...

The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Saturday to accept the decision of 261 congregations to leave the denomination over a divide on LGBTQ issues.