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.
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.
The oldest Christian rescue mission in New York City, the Bowery provides food, beds, showers, clothing and free medical services to the estimated 70,000 New Yorkers who don’t have permanent shelter. Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the organization has had to adjust to new regulations to help contain the spread of the disease.
New York is officially allowing minors the ability to officially change their sex on their birth certificates.
The play The Gospel of John took to the off-Broadway stage this month and critics are raving about it.
