Amazon s Dunfermline distribution centre in Scotland. (Ken Jack/Getty Images)
More than 40 groups that vehemently oppose LGBT+ rights are fundraising on Amazon, despite the online shopping giant’s pledges to support equality.
An investigation by
openDemocracy found that the US AmazonSmile platform – that lets Amazon customers donate to charities as they shop online – has hosted groups that have intervened in court cases opposing equal marriage, described COVID-19 as “the consequential wrath of God” and punishment for sins including society’s “proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality”, and attacked TV shows for increasing “social acceptance of homosexuality”.
Among the anti-LGBT+ group hosted on AmazonSmile are Focus on the Family, American Family Association and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
President Donald J. Trump exits the South Portico of the White House Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. | White House/Tia Dufour
Evangelist Franklin Graham, who has been a supporter of President Donald Trump, said he tends to believe the president when he says the 2020 presidential election has been rigged or stolen because Trump “has a track record of being right.”
“In 2016, Donald J. Trump told the American people that the government was spying on him. The media said that he was paranoid. The Obama administration and the Democrats said that this was an absolute lie and that Donald Trump was not fit to be president, only for us to find out later that the U.S. government did spy on Donald Trump, and what he had said was in fact true,” wrote Graham on his Facebook page Saturday.
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The Rev. Franklin Graham, president of the humanitarian organization Samaritan’s Purse, announced Tuesday a staff member was medically evacuated after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, posted a photo of himself flying back from Azerbaijan, where the staff member was located.
“I’m headed back from Azerbaijan, where we flew to medically evacuate one of our Samaritan’s Purse staff who had come down with coronavirus, quarantined, and was needing additional medical care,” he wrote. “We thank God that he is stable and everyone else on the team is okay.”
A Christian in Prague, Czech Republic, shares encouragement from the Bible on the streets. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country is in a state of emergency and lockdown. Christians in Prague are taking to the streets wearing masks and practicing socially distance to share the Word, hand out Bibles and share the hope found in Christ. | IMB
Earlier this year, when shutdowns over the coronavirus were fairly recent, experts on mission work came together for a podcast to discuss the possible impact of COVID-19 on their efforts.
Hosted by ABWE International in late April, the Missions Podcast episode examined how mission work was going to be impacted, possibly for the long term, by the pandemic.
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Graham also releases four-week Advent devotional titled In the Presence of the King, offers it for free as a digital download
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 15, 2020 /Christian Newswire/ Evangelist Will Graham will hold his final online evangelistic outreach of 2020, titled Christmas with Will Graham: An Online Celebration, on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 6 p.m. ET. Broadcasting live from the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove in Asheville, the event will feature music from Mark Christian, a reading of the biblical Christmas story by Kendra Graham (Will s wife), and a historic Christmas clip of Will s late grandfather Billy Graham, along with Will s Christmas