The Church of Sweden, Europe’s largest Lutheran denomination, is known today for its overtly liberal position in many theological and secular issues, such as the question of homosexuality, yet has been steadily losing 1-2 percent of its worshippers every year over the past decades. For the first time in history, the number of female clergy in the Church of Sweden has surpassed that of their... 

Rival factions within the Methodist church are contemplating a divorce, weighing plans to split in half due to an intractable dispute over its current ban on gay marriage and LGBT clergy. The plan will be considered at the church’s major yearly conference in Minneapolis, set for May, which if approved would rupture the denomination into traditionalist and ‘progressive’ camps. The former branch...