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Chick-fil-A Losing $1 Billion by Closing Sundays… or Is the Opposite True?
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…
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One in Four Babies Were Aborted in England and Whales Last Year, Report Finds
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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Poll Finds That 89 Percent of British Young Adults Think Life Has No Meaning1 – Urban Christian News
A new United Kingdom survey showing an overwhelming majority of 16-29-year-olds believe life has no purpose or meaning can be directly attributed to the decline of Christianity in the country, says the founder of Answers In Genesis.
The poll of 1,500 British people by Yakult UK showed 89 percent of those ages 16-29 say life lacks purpose or meaning, compared to 55 percent of those over 60 who answered that way. The Sun newspaper was the first media outlet to report the survey.
Answers In Genesis founder and CEO Ken Ham blamed a lack of faith among young people for the tragic data. A separate 2018 poll showed only 2 percent of those ages 18-24 are affiliated with the Church of England.
“When we understand and embrace God’s Word, we will know the difference between the truth and the lies, and we won’t be deceived,” Ham wrote in an online analysis.
“Where do meaning and purpose come from?” Ham asked, rhetorically. “It comes from our Creator! It comes from having a proper perspective on the history of the universe and humanity — one that starts with God’s Word. We’re not accidents, the result of millions of years of random, chance processes.
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Christian Mother in Somalia Divorced, Beaten
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…
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Call for evidence for abuse inquiry into faith settings
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Safeguarding in Faith Settings has issued a call for evidence.
The focus for the second inquiry is on whether there should be a change in legislation relating to ‘positions of trust’ within faith settings. This inquiry comes as the Ministry of Justice undertakes a review of the current government legislation.
The intended objective of the inquiry is to publish a report detailing current knowledge on whether there is a need for changes to be made to ‘positions of trust’ within the Sexual Offences Act, 2003 to ensure faith settings are sufficiently within scope to allow young people to be better protected from harm.
Under the current legislation, it is illegal for groups of professionals such as teachers, care workers and youth justice staff to be involved in sexual activity with a 16 or 17-year-old under their supervision.
However, other adults who hold similar positions of power within settings such as faith and religious organisations and sports teams, are not covered by the current provisions.
Thirtyone:eight was announced as a core participant for the investigation and review into the current child protection policies and procedures in religious institutions in England and Wales, including non-conformist Christian denominations and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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