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Religion News: United Methodist Church postpones General Conference amid coronavirus
By Emily McFarlan Miller
(RNS) — The United Methodist Church has postponed its 2020 General Conference — where delegates were expected to take up legislation to split the denomination — over concerns about the spread of COVID-19, what’s commonly referred to as the coronavirus.
The quadrennial meeting of the denomination’s decision-making body was set to gather 862 delegates and other United Methodists from all over the world May 5-15 in Minneapolis.