A 2023 PBS NewsHour report on United Methodist disaffiliations, stating that "the United Methodists had a U.S. membership of 6.5 million in 30,543 churches as of 2019," the baseline immediately before the 2019-2023 disaffiliation wave, according to the denomination's own website.
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Citation
PublisherPBS NewsHour
Publication Year2023
URLhttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-quarter-of-united-methodist-churches-in-u-s-have-left-during-split
Source Typenews
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
A national news service (PBS NewsHour, produced with the Associated Press) reporting the denomination's own 2019 membership and church-count figures as published on the United Methodist Church's website; independent journalism relaying a primary denominational statistic, not the statistic's own source page. Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Denominations, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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