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.
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.
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson released a statement Tuesday criticizing Samaritan’s Purse, which set up a 14-tent, 68-bed respiratory care unit in Central Park.
New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested this weekend that churches could be closed “permanently” if they refuse to meet CDC COVID-19 recommendations.
After testing positive for the coronavirus, Hillsong Church NYC pastor Carl Lentz is urging people to take the pandemic seriously.
