United Methodists to lose 12% of global membership as African churches exit over LGBTQ-friendly move

The United Methodist Church is on track to shed roughly 12% of its membership this week when the Eglise Methodiste Unie Cote d'Ivoire (EMUCI) voted Tuesday to leave the 9.9-million-member denomination.

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