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disaffiliate

[dis-uh-fil-ee-ayt] / ˌdɪs əˈfɪl iˌeɪt /






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One group of African delegates protested outside the General Conference and said their members would discuss whether to disaffiliate.

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024

Some are proposing that African and other churches be given the same chance that U.S. churches recently had to disaffiliate under favorable terms.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

A chart from the church’s UM News service shows a total of 4,359 congregations have been approved to disaffiliate, approximately 14% of the denomination’s 30,543 U.S. congregations reported in 2019.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2023

Last month, 38 churches in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church sued in the state’s Superior Court, demanding they be allowed to disaffiliate from the denomination.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

USC strongly criticized the move to disaffiliate and invite first-year students to rush, saying in a statement that such fall recruitment “has been repeatedly shown to be unsafe for new students.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2022

A 2023 study by the Survey Center on American Life found that young women account for 54% of the Gen Z that are religiously disaffiliated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

The BBC has seen documents that show the Green Party disaffiliated the GPW for failing to run its planned Autumn 2021 committee election until January 2022.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023

The Louisville, Kentucky-based denomination said Monday 108 churches disaffiliated, dropping the number of congregations to 8,704, a shedding of 747 churches since 2016.

From Washington Times ● May 3, 2023

SPU could be one, she said, even if it disaffiliated from the Free Methodist Church.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2022

They instead tap into how disaffiliated Americans are becoming from organized religion.

From Washington Post ● May 16, 2022

One outcome is that many people are disaffiliating from their churches, their belief systems, and their communities.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

Many churches began disaffiliating under a temporary measure approved in 2019 that let churches keep their properties under favorable conditions.

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024

Those crises set off a domino of CrossFit gyms’ disaffiliating from the brand—and the company, under new leadership and ownership, now faces the challenge of charting its future.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023

“I want to say unequivocally that no, we are not disaffiliating to dodge these social event policies that were put into place,” said Murphy, a senior majoring in political science and history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2022

The reasons that more young Americans are disaffiliating in the world’s most religious developed country are varied.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021


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