A group of over 50 pro-life organizations and individuals signed a joint letter to Alex Azar, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), urging him to use whatever emergency powers he has at his disposal to require abortion clinics to stop performing elective abortions and join in the collective national effort to combat the coronavirus. 

Officials with Susan B. Anthony List, Students for Life of America, March for Life, National Right to Life, Concerned Women for America and the Family Policy Alliance, among many other of the letter’s signatories, explained the issue this way:

While the coronavirus outbreak may have started in China, it was its explosive growth in Italy that took the world by surprise. Currently, Worldometer reports that there have been nearly 70,000 cases and 6,820 deaths there. Despite the unique nature of this global crisis, Samaritan’s Purse received permission to send a medical response team to one of the hardest hit areas. 

The Daily Citizen recently had the opportunity to catch up with Ken Isaacs, the Vice President of Programs and Government Relations and my former boss at Samaritan’s Purse. He’s been on the front lines leading efforts to respond to numerous disasters, including the Rwandan genocide, the 2004 South Asian tsunami, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan and numerous other disasters, including this latest response in Italy. 

The United Methodist Church (UMC), the third largest denomination in the U.S., postponed its scheduled May conference in Minneapolis, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Almost 900 delegates were expected to come from all over the world to discuss, debate and vote on a plan for splitting the denomination: the “Protocol of Reconciliation and Grace Through Separation.”

The separation is between two groups within the UMC who differ over biblical sexual ethics – with LGBT issues at the forefront of the divide.