Amazon, the second-largest U.S. based corporate employer in the world, lays off several hundreds of employees. | Reuters/Charles Patiau
A left-leaning website is pressuring Amazon to drop several Christian organizations, including the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, and Alliance Defending Freedom, from its AmazonSmile charity because of their biblical views against homosexuality, according to a report.
Dozens of Christian groups are raising funds through AmazonSmile, which allows customers to choose a charity to receive proceeds from their purchases, “despite the company’s policies against discrimination based on sexual orientation,” says an “investigation” published by the openDemocracy website days before Christmas Day.
It’s a Fallen World
“God, no question, is in charge. But we also know that the world in which we live is a fallen world, Graham told CBN News. And the god of this age is Satan. And we know that he controls so much of what is going on in the world. The bad things that are going on.”
It’s also a world where COVID has killed more than 300,000 of our fellow Americans.
Graham pointed out it’s an unprecedented time.
“Never in the history of mankind has the world been locked down, he noted. It’s never done that. We’ve never taken healthy populations and locked them down. It’s always been sick people that we locked down.”
Amazon Has Allowed Anti-LGBT Groups to Raise Money on Its Donations Platform
The online shopping giant has given many anti-LGBT groups a fundraising platform despite its anti-discrimination policy.
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openDemocracy reveals.
Amazon has emerged as one of the few winners during the coronavirus pandemic because lockdown, infection fears and the closure of physical shops have encouraged online shopping. The company has seen profits rise almost 50%, compared to last year.
“Experience feel-good shopping” is the slogan of the AmazonSmile programme, which enables customers to donate to charities as they shop online. Amazon says the programme has facilitated $215 million in such donations since its launch in 2013.
Most of us would agree that we canât wait for disastrous 2020 to come to an end. The coronavirus reared its ugly head early in the year, and then came Hurricanes Laura and Delta. However, we canât let Christmas come and go and forget the blessings we have also enjoyed.
The stateâs first COVID-19 case was reported on March 9, and the deadly coronavirus pandemic disease by Tuesday had claimed over 6,800 lives in Louisiana. And the nation is currently in one of its most deadly coronavirus surges.
Hurricane Laura hit Southwest Louisiana on Aug. 27, and Hurricane Delta came six weeks later. Our homes and businesses have been devastated, and the return to normalcy could be years away.
Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. and other community group leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., Nov. 9, 2011, to announce the launch of the grassroots group E Plubribus Unum. The group plans to rally minorities around conservative ideas during the 2012 election season. | (Photo: The Christian Post / Stephanie Samuel)
Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., a megachurch pastor and longtime conservative Christian activist who served as an evangelical adviser to President Donald Trump, has died at age 66.
The leadership of Hope Christian Church of Beltsville, Maryland, where Jackson served as senior pastor, posted a statement to Facebook on Monday announcing his passing.
“It is with a heavy heart that we notify you that our beloved Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr. has transitioned to be with the Lord on November 9, 2020,” stated the church.