A New York City church is setting $200,000 aside to pay reparations to the Black community and to pay for youth anti-racism training.
A New York City church is setting $200,000 aside to pay reparations to the Black community and to pay for youth anti-racism training.
Two black Christian women were arrested over the weekend after they began painting over a Black Lives Matter mural outside of Trump Tower in New York City while demanding the police be refunding and chanting "Jesus Matters!"
On Friday, a U.S. federal judge issued an injunction against New York officials, saying it’s likely unconstitutional to restrict gatherings at houses of worship while allowing mass gatherings at protests and not similarly restricting businesses.
Earlier this month a New York church was threatened with a $1,000 fine for holding a drive-in church service. The church is now challenging the fine.
Groups of people drove by Iglesia Sol De Justicia in Brooklyn to thank the church's pastor for his work with a Christian aid group in passing out emergency kits to feed struggling families amid the pandemic.
New York's governor Andrew Cuomo has asserted that Samaritan's Purse will have to pay state taxes on the volunteer pop-up coronavirus hospital the organization set up in New York City.
New Yorkers haven’t quite known whether to embrace or rebuff the Samaritan's Purse. As soon as it became clear that New York City was becoming the epicenter of the pandemic, Samaritan’s Purse struck an agreement with the overstretched Mount Sinai Hospital to treat a surge of patients needing immediate medical help.
But even before the field hospital accepted its first patient, old culture war issues, with no connection to the coronavirus, broke open.
On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asserted that 'God did not' having anything to do with the falling number of coronavirus cases in New York.
LGBTQ activists stood several yards away from the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital on the East Meadow lawn and blasted city and state officials and Mount Sinai Hospital for partnering with the evangelical humanitarian relief organization treating overflow patients suffering from the coronavirus, on Tuesday.
Last week, New York state legislature passed and Governor Cuomo signed, a bill that legalizes commercial surrogacy.
