Oklahoma

Fifty-five congregations in Oklahoma are disaffiliating from the United Methodist Church after delegates voted at a conference to approve the process.

Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee was one of the hardest-hit areas in the region and received a visit the day after the storm from Gov. Kevin Stitt, who declared a state of emergency for the counties impacted by the storm. 

Four people were killed, and multiple others were wounded in a shooting at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital campus on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed the nation’s strictest abortion ban into law. The law bans abortions from the moment of conception with exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother.

On Tuesday, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) signed a bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. A fetal heartbeat is typically first detected around six weeks of gestation.

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) has signed a bill banning non-binary gender marks on birth certificates.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill into law that bans nearly all abortions in the state except in cases where a mother’s life is at risk.

The congregation of an Oklahoma church heavily damaged in a tornado met together just one week after the storm to pray and worship despite the losses.

An Oklahoma judge has issued a temporary restraining order stopping a healthcare company from firing unvaccinated workers who had been denied religious exemptions from the company's vaccination mandate.

An Oklahoma family has been reunited with their late mother’s Bible from 1946 after a man found it on his front lawn.