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 ...

More than 100 South Carolina churches will separate from one of the state’s largest denominations. At its statewide conference in Florence on Tuesday, the United Methodist Church approved the “closure ...

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, ...

AIKEN — One of Aiken County's oldest churches will soon be involved in a property dispute with a statewide religious organization. The South Carolina Conference of United Methodist Churches filed a ...

As the Global Methodist Church gets ready to mark two years since it launched on May 1, 2022, it has gradually taken shape as a new denomination after a split with the United Methodist Church.

The service celebrated the local church officially becoming a “Global” Methodist church. It also served as a look back at its long history as a “United” Methodist church. It was one of the saddest ...