Netflix reported slower-than-expected growth in worldwide subscribers in its third-quarter report Tuesday, potentially reflecting an impact from its controversial Cuties movie and a subsequent boycott.

Netflix said it had gained a net 2.20 million worldwide subscribers compared to the 3.57 million that investors were expecting and the 6.8 million net subscribers it added during the same quarter one year earlier, CNBC reported.

In the U.S., Netflix netted only 177,000 new subscribers during the third quarter.

The streaming giant was hit this fall with a boycott over Cuties a TV-MA film about a group of 11-year-old girls who join a dance group and dance in sexually suggestive ways. A Twitter clip that amassed more than 22 million views showed the girls on stage dressed in revealing outfits while they twerked and touched one another. A Texas grand jury indicted Netflix earlier this month for “promotion of lewd visual material” depicting children. Netflix has stood by the movie.

Gary Levin, USA Today’s TV editor, surmised the boycott may have played a role in the lack of subscriber growth.

“It’s impossible to attribute the lower numbers directly to the ‘Cuties’-inspired boycott drive. But at least two analytics firms said last month their data showed Netflix was suffering higher ‘churn’ rates, which measure subscription…

Alfred Street Baptist Church, a predominantly Black church in Alexandria, Virginia, has donated more than $1,000,000 to various organizations to help those affected by the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, The Christian Post reports.

The money came from excess tithes that the church didn’t need to run. It was part of an initiative called “Tithe-The-Tithe.”

According to a press release from the church, “Alfred Street Baptist Church (ASBC) has donated $1,079,287 under their Tithe-the-Tithe Initiative to 69 community-based and national organizations to support COVID-19 relief and other needs.” The press release further goes on to name some of the organizations that received the financial support, including Children’s National Hospital, Unity Health Care, D.C. Rape Crisis Center, and others.

The initiative was started on Easter Sunday, when the head pastor, Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley, announced that 10 percent of all money tithed to the church would go toward organizations that help the community. “I believe that the Black church has the opportunity and the obligation to reach into segments of our community that are always overlooked by government,” he said.

A portion of the money is also going to other churches that had to shutter their doors during the pandemic. “One of the things that we’re going to do is, take some of that 10 percent…

In the midst of the 2020 presidential election, church leaders across various denominations in the U.S. have expressed differing stances when it comes to abortion, The Associated Press reports.

Some leaders who are overtly against abortion are also outspoken against the political party that supports it, namely the Democratic Party.

In a viral video last month, Father James Altman of St. James the Less Catholic parish in Lacrosse, Wisconsin slammed the Democratic Party and its Catholic supporters for endorsing abortion.

“You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat,” Altman said in the video. “Repent of your support of that party and its platform or face the fires of hell.”

Similarly, Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church of Dallas – a staunch supporter of President Trump – expressed strong remarks against Christians planning to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

“As long as Joe Biden and the Democratic Party continue to support unrestricted abortion for any reason and at any stage in a pregnancy, priests and pastors like myself will have no problem saying, ‘Only Christians who have sold their soul to the devil would vote for Joe Biden,’” Jeffress asserted.

Conversely, some mainline Protestant denominations have endorsed abortion in their official positions as a matter of reproductive care.

According to a 2018 Episcopal Church

76 Percent of White Evangelicals Approve of President Trump’s Job: Poll

According to a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute, evangelicals are the only major group of religious demographics to approve of President Trump at 76 percent, or three in four white evangelicals. They were also the only group to list terrorism as a significant concern in the upcoming election. Most other groups’ top issue was the Coronavirus pandemic, with only one group, Black protestants, saying that racial equality is a main issue for them in the election.

Interestingly enough, white evangelicals were the only group to care about abortion as a major issue. But virtually every group cited fairness in the election as an important issue. The only groups to highlight crime as an important issue were Hispanic Protestants and White Mainline Protestants.

However, there were a few groups missing from the demographics research: Hispanic, Black, and Catholic Evangelicals. These groups, although smaller, still make up large portions of Christianity.

A graphic from Religion News Service has each sect and their most important issues, in addition to non-Christians.

The poll also asked Republicans and Democrats a series of questions, including if American Culture has changed for better or for worse since the 1950s. Fifty-two percent of Republicans believe America’s culture…

Pro-life women are speaking out after singer and songwriter Stevie Nicks told a British newspaper that much of her success can be credited to an abortion.

Nicks, 72, was a lead singer with the band Fleetwood Mac before she recorded several solo albums beginning in 1981.

She told The Guardian for an Oct. 14 story that a 1979 abortion kept her career on track. She had become pregnant with Eagles singer Don Henley.

“If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac,” Nicks told the newspaper. “There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. And there were a lot of drugs, I was doing a lot of drugs … I would have had to walk away.

“And I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many people’s hearts and make people so happy,” Nicks added. “And I thought: you know what? That’s really important. There’s not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers. That was my world’s mission.”

Several pro-life women say Nicks’ opinion reflects skewed priorities.

“The ultimate lie that feminists tell women. … you have to have an abortion in order to succeed. So sad,” tweeted Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life.

The ultimate lie that feminists tell women…you have to have…

On Sunday morning, Trump attended the International Church of Las Vegas where one of the pastors prophesied a second-term victory for the president, The Christian Post reports.

“At 4:30, the Lord said to me, ‘I am going to give your president a second win,’” Senior Associate Pastor Denise Goulet told Trump. “The Lord said, ‘he is ready for the next four years.'”

“There’s also this – a second wind…the Holy Spirit,” she explained. “The Lord showed me today that you are going to get a second wind…another in-filling of the Holy Spirit…because the Holy Spirit makes you able to finish, to take this to the end, Mr. President.”

“Then, he said to me you are the apple of His eye,” she continued. “He is protecting you like he is protecting the ancient foundations of our nation. God wants to be in the middle of our nation.”

Her husband, Senior Pastor Paul Goulet, noted that this was the president’s third visit to the nondenominational church and that he was welcomed as a member.

“This is your third time here. That means you’re a church member,” he said to the president. “I don’t care what anybody says. I love my president.”

Goulet went on to commend Trump’s presidential accomplishments during his first term including, protecting the unborn, advocating for religious freedom, moving the U.S embassy to Jerusalem,…