A new report says Chick-fil-A is losing more than $1 billion in sales by being closed on Sundays. Its founder and its current CEO, though, likely would disagree.

The company had more than $10 billion in revenue in 2018, with roughly 2,400 restaurants in 47 states and Washington, D.C. 

McDonald’s gains an estimated 15 percent of its sales on Sunday, according to a 24/7 Wall Street report in USA Today. If that traffic pattern and percentage were true with Chick-fil-A, then the company could gain at least $1.2 billion in sales by opening Sundays, according to 24/7 Wall Street.

But Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy has previously argued that the company may gain revenue by being closed on Sundays.

“If we can let [employees] kind of take some time off and live and breathe, they come in with a lot more enthusiasm on Monday – plus a little bit more on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday,” Cathy told Atlanta’s WSB-TV last year. “And it more than offsets — this defies the accountant’s logic, here, I know that – but it more than offsets the fact that we close everything down on Sunday. And it’s worked great for us.”

Cathy said he and his siblings signed a covenant with their father – founder Truett Cathy – never to open on Sundays.

“He never liked the idea of asking other people to do that which he was not willing to do himself,” Dan…

One in four babies are aborted in England and Wales, according to a report from Right to Life UK.

The report said that last year, 23.8 percent of pregnancies were ended by abortions. This is up from 20.7 percent in 2012. 

More than 657,000 babies were born alive last year in the two countries, and more than 200,000 babies were aborted.

Catherine Robinson, a spokeswoman for Right to Life UK, said the numbers showed a “national tragedy.”

She said, “It is a national tragedy that almost 1 in 4 pregnancies (excluding stillbirths and natural miscarriage) in England and Wales ended in abortion in 2018. This represents one of the highest proportions of abortions to live births since abortion was introduced in 1967 – the only year with a higher proportion was 2001 where 23.9% of all pregnancies ended in abortion.”

She continued, “Every one of these abortions represents a failure of our society to protect the lives of babies in the womb and a failure to offer full support to women with unplanned pregnancies.

“On the other hand, these figures show the dramatic difference that laws surrounding abortion make,” Robinson added.

According to the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom, there were 192,900 abortions in 2017.

Much of the increase comes from non-residents traveling to Wales and England for the procedure. 

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NAIROBI, Kenya, August 16, 2019 (Morning Star News) – The husband of a 32-year-old mother of two children in Somalia had just discovered that his wife owned a Bible and demanded that she reveal who had given it to her.

“I told my husband that I found the Bible in Nairobi and wanted to read it,” the secret Christian told Morning Star News. “He just pronounced the word talaq [divorce] to me. I knew that our marriage had just been rendered null and void because I joined Christianity, so without wasting time I left the homestead.”

This happened in June in Burao (Burco in Arabic), in Somaliland, a self-declared state widely considered to be an autonomous region of Somalia, a month after the couple returned from a trip to Kenya to obtain medical treatment for her father.

Taking him first to Nairobi Hospital and then to Kijabe Mission Hospital, the woman (name undisclosed for security reasons) had found a Somali-language Bible there and requested a copy to read later in private. Secretly converting from Islam in 2016, she had never owned a Bible.

Having returned to Burao, the mother of two girls, ages 7 and 4, had forgotten to lock the drawer where she hid her Bible. Her husband found it and then proceeded to confront and threaten her, she said.

“There and then he took our two daughters away from me and divorced me,” she told Morning Star News. “He gave me a stern warning that I…

MIAMI, August 15, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Miguel Pérez Díaz, his eight children and 87-year-old father have been living in a mountainside shack since May, when local officials expelled them from their village in Chiapas state, Mexico.

Relatives, friends and neighbors in Tajlovijho, a village in the municipality of San Andrés Larráinzar in southern Mexico, had been harassing them for leaving indigenous religious practices for Christianity, sources said.

“The first action they took against them was to cut their potable water service,” pastor Mario Choj told Morning Star News. “Then they made them leave the humble home they owned.”

Leaving the “traditionalist” blend of Roman Catholic and indigenous rituals and beliefs, the Pérez family put their faith in Christ four years ago and began a small fellowship in their home, said Pastor Choj, who leads an Assemblies of God Church called Jesús Es el Camino.

The family loaded the few belongings their neighbors allowed them to take and headed up the mountains to a village called Mitontic, where they survive by collecting the morning dew from a nylon sheet and rainwater that falls from the metal roof of the shanty they built, the pastor said. They store the water in empty soda bottles and other containers.

Despite taking refuge far from their home, they are obligated to pay Tajlovijho…