Christmas will be merrier for 589 children in the Eastern Lancaster County School District thanks to the Christmas Gift Program sponsored by CrossNet Ministries.
Black LGBTQ Clergy Offer Support to Community at a Tough Time
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In the midst of battling systemic racism in our communities, criminal justice reform and LGBTQ alliance building, a pandemic rages on one that disproportionately affects the Black community and LGBTQ people.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report this month detailing the underlying health conditions that increase the risk of contracting severe COVID-19 among sexual minorities. In a response by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the organization’s president Alphonso David said, “This report affirms what LGBTQ advocates and organizations have known all along: that our community is at greater risk and disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 health crisis.”