FLORENCE — After years of battling over finances, human sexuality, property rights and religious discipline, 113 United Methodist Churches formally left the denomination during the annual state ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S., lost about a quarter of its total churches between 2019 and 2023 due to disaffiliations, ...

The largest Methodist church in South Carolina will soon sever its connection to the country’s largest Methodist denomination. The congregation at Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church in Lexington has ...

In a recent commentary about the United Methodist Church split, columnist Paul DeMarco expressed heartbreak at driving past former UMCs whose signs were changing. I empathize with his grief. But I ...

Under the new restructuring plan, called 'regionalization,' the denomination's nine regions will be equal partners with ...

A lawyer representing multiple congregations facing legal hurdles in their attempts to leave the largest mainline Methodist denomination in the U.S. said the battles are ultimately financial. "It's ...

A long-running battle between one of the state’s largest churches and several of its local congregations is heading for one South Carolina judge’s desk. S.C. Chief Justice John Kittredge has ...

Hundreds of congregations of the United Methodist Church voted to leave the denomination Saturday, and remaining congregations have just six weeks left to decide whether to leave or stay amid the ...