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        width: 100%;
        display: block;
        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        height: 48px;
        background-position: 10px center;
        text-indent: -9999px;
      }
      .stripe{
        background-color: #000;
        color: #FFF;
        height: 48px;
        line-height: 48px;
      }
      .stripe a{
        color: #FFF;
      }
      .error{ color: red; }
      .box-title{
        margin-bottom: 10px;
              }
      .box-title:before{
                 content: ' ';
        display: inline-block;
        background: #EC1A2E;
        height: 0.75em;
        width: 0.5em;
        margin-right: 5px;
              }
      .main-body{
        background: #fff;
        max-width: 600px;
        margin: 0 auto;
        overflow-x: hidden;
        position: relative;
      }
      .hidden {display: none;}
      .media-prefix {
        color: #EC1A2E;
        margin-right: 7px;
      }
      .icon-star {
        display: inline-block;
        vertical-align: middle;
        font-size: 35px;
        margin-right: -9px;
        color: #EC1A2E;
      }
      .stars-1 .icon-star:nth-child(n+3) {
        color: #666;
        opacity: .2;
      }
      .stars-2 .icon-star:nth-child(n+4) {
        color: #666;
        opacity: .2;
      }
      .stars-3 .icon-star:nth-child(n+5) {
        color: #666;
        opacity: .2;
      }
      .stars-4 .icon-star:nth-child(n+6) {
        color: #666;
        opacity: .2;
      }
      .inline-pipes-list {
        list-style: none;
        margin-bottom: 20px;
        padding: 0;
        overflow: hidden;
      }
      .inline-pipes-list li{
        float: left;
        margin-right: 6px;
      }
      .inline-pipes-list li:after{
        content: '|';
        padding-left: 2px;
        color: #bbb;
        font-weight: 400;
      }
      .inline-pipes-list li:last-child:after{
        display: none;
      }
      .inline-block-quote blockquote:before{
        content: '\201C';
        font-family: Georgia;
        color: #EC1A2E;
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 2.1em;
        line-height: .9em;
        height: 20px;
        float: left;

        padding-right: .15em;
        margin-left: -.09em;
      }
      .twitter-wrap{
        max-width: 500px;
        margin: 0 auto;
      }
      .breadcrumbs{
        padding: 0 0 0 0;
        margin-top: 0;
        margin-bottom: 4px;
        list-style: none;
        overflow: hidden;
      }
      .breadcrumbs li{
        float: left;
      }
      .breadcrumbs li:before {
        content: '\203A';
        margin: 0 5px;
      }
      .breadcrumbs li:first-child:before {
        display: none;
      }
      .breadcrumbs li a {
        color: #EC1A2E;
      }
      .share{
        margin: 0 0 20px;
        padding: 0;
        list-style: none;
        overflow: hidden;
      }
      .share li{
        float: left;
        margin-right: 6px;
      }
      .share li a{
        color: #fff;
        display: block;
        height: 40px;
        padding: 4px 0;
        width: 48px;
        text-align: center;
                border-radius: 24px;
        font-size: 25px;
              }
      .share li a i{
                margin-top: -1px;
        display: block;
                line-height: 48px;
      }
      .share li a.share-fb{
        background: #3067A3;
      }
      .share li a.share-tw{
        background: #03B3EE;
        padding: 3px 0 5px 0;
      }
      .share li a.share-wp{
        background: #59CB3F;
        padding: 2px 0 6px 0;
      }
      .share li a.share-em{
        background: #EC1A2E;
      }
      .share li a.share-em .icon-email:before{
                  }
      .share li a.share-em i {
        margin-top: -3px;
                  }
      .ad-leaderboard{
        display: block;
        margin: 0 auto;
      }
      .ad-center{
        display: block;
        margin: 0 auto 20px;
      }
      .taboola{
        padding-bottom: 20px;
      }
      article h1.title{
        margin-top: 0;
        margin-bottom: 20px;
                font-family: 'Fira Sans', Helvetica, Arial;
        font-size: 32px;
        line-height: 36px;
                          font-weight: bold;
              }
      article h2{
                font-family: 'Fira Sans', Helvetica, Arial;
                text-transform: uppercase;
        font-weight: 900;
        font-size: 20px;
      }
      article .caption{
        color: #888;
        font-size: 14px;
        line-height: 18px;
        margin-top: 3px;
        font-family: 'Fira Sans', Helvetica, Arial;
      }

      article .copyright{
        font-style: italic;
      }
      article .author{
                      }
      article .author a{
                      }
      article .content{
                font-family: "Indy Serif";
                font-size: 18px;
        line-height: 26px;
      }
      article .content > p:first-child{
                  }
      article .content > p:last-of-type:after{
        content: ' ';
        display: inline-block;
        height: 16px;
        background: #EC1A2E;
        position: relative;
        top: 2px;
        left: 6px;
        width: 12px;
                  border-radius: 8px;
          width: 16px;
              }
      article .content > p table,
      article .content > table{
        width: 100%;
      }
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<p>A Texas woman who volunteered to help <a href="/topic/hurricane-harvey">Hurricane Harvey</a> victims says she was &ldquo;fired&rdquo; by the church organising the relief effort after they discovered she was lesbian and Jewish.</p>

	<p>Carmen Hix said she heard that the <a href="/topic/calvary-houston">Calvary Houston</a> non-denominational church in the city of Friendswood, near Houston, in Texas was looking for volunteers to help run its food bank <a href="/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvey-help-donate-how-to-hurricane-houston-texas-red-cross-storm-charities-a7916996.html">so she took a week off work and donated $500&ndash; (&pound;370)&ndash;worth of food.</a></p>

	<p>She said she had volunteered for the church for three days when another volunteer started asking questions about her personal life, and she told them that she was Jewish and had raised two children with her partner Christina Fiddmont-Norfleet.</p>

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	<div class="relatedlinkslist inline-block-related-list inline-block-left"> <h2 class="box-title">Read more</h2> <div class="relatedlinkslist-content"> <ul class="related"><li><a data-author="Rachel Chason..." data-nid="7923481" data-publish_date="01-09-2017" href="/news/world/americas/lesbian-damages-couple-amanda-abramovich-samantha-brookover-debbie-allen-10000-county-clerk-a7923481.html">Lesbians win $10,000 from clerk who called them an &lsquo;abomination&rsquo;</a></li> <li><a data-author="Jeremy B White..." data-nid="7919301" data-publish_date="30-08-2017" href="/news/world/americas/us-politics/ann-coulter-harvey-climate-change-god-punishment-more-credible-tweet-a7919301.html">Ann Coulter links storm Harvey with Houston's lesbian mayor</a></li> <li><a data-author="Sarah Young..." data-nid="7766606" data-publish_date="01-06-2017" href="/life-style/lesbian-relationships-men-turn-on-same-sex-female-attraction-menelaos-apostolou-cyprus-university-a7766606.html">Male professor claims lesbians only exist because they turn men on</a></li> </ul></div> </div> <p>She <a href="http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2017/09/houston-church-allegedly-fires-hurricane-harvey-volunteer-for-being-gay-jewish/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">told OutSmart magazine</a> that she thought she would be asked to do more volunteering in future, but instead she was asked why she said &ldquo;Shalom&rdquo; at the end of their morning prayers.</p>

	<p>The group all came together to pray before they started working each morning but she simply bowed her head in respect and said the salutation which means &ldquo;peace be with you&rdquo; in Hebrew.</p>

	<p>When she explained this to the pastor he reportedly said she could no longer help at the church because she did not share its beliefs.</p>

	<p>She said: &ldquo;I asked, &lsquo;So if I were a liar with an evil heart, and I told you what you want to hear, that I am a Christian, I would be allowed to continue to contribute to those less fortunate than I?&rsquo; I was told, &lsquo;Yes&rdquo;.</p>

	<div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-gallery"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><!--gallery start--><h2 class="gallery-title"><span class="media-prefix "></span>World news in pictures</h2><amp-carousel class="amp-carousel-main" layout="responsive" height="700" width="566" type="slides" controls=""><div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/17/15/kurdish-demonstrator.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="17 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>17 February 2018</h3>A pro-Kurd demonstrator attends a protest demanding the release of the Kurdistan Workers&rsquo; Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan in Strasbourg, France</div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/16/17/florida-shooting-10.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="16 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>16 February 2018</h3>Joe Zevuloni mourns in front of a cross placed in a park to commemorate the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/15/15/cyril-ramaphosa-3.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="15 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>15 February 2018</h3>South Africa's new president Cyril Ramaphosa holds up his right hand as he is sworn into office <em>AFP/Getty</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/14/12/cape-town-press-conference.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="14 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>14 February 2018</h3>The African National Congress&rsquo;s (ANC) treasurer general Paul Mashatile (left) and parliamentary chief whip Jackson Mthembu address a media briefing, after an emergency ANC caucus meeting on 14 February in Cape Town. South Africa&rsquo;s parliament will hold a vote of no-confidence in President Jacob Zuma on 15 February, the ruling ANC party said, signalling its determination to eject him from office after days of stalemate <em>AFP</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class="-amp-slide-item slide"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-outer"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-inner"><amp-ad width="300" height="255" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent_amp/in_news_amp/in_world_amp/in_americas_amp/in_americas_article_amp" json='{"targeting":{"tile":"mpu5","pagetype":"amp"}}'></amp-ad><div class="ad-caption"><h3>Swipe to continue</h3></div></div></div></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/13/12/north-korea-cheerleaders.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="13 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>13 February 2018</h3>North Korean cheerleaders are surrounded by media as they attempt to walk on Gyeongpo beach in Gangneung, South Korea <em>AFP/Getty</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/12/16/obama-unveiling.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="12 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>12 February 2018</h3>Former US President Barack Obama unveils his portrait at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC <em>AFP/Getty</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/09/14/pence-kim.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="9 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>9 February 2018</h3>US Vice President Mike Pence and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's sister Kim Yo-Jong attend the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games <em>AFP/Getty</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/08/11/bangladesh-protest.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="8 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>8 February 2018</h3>Bangladesh police charge towards activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party protesting following a verdict against opposition leader Khaleda Zia in Dhaka. The ex-Prime Minister of Bangladesh was jailed for five years on corruption charges. <em>AFP/Getty</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/07/17/pictures-of-the-day-6.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="7 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>7 February 2018</h3>Rescue services search for people in a damaged building in eastern Taiwan after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Hualien on the night of 6 February, 2018. Media reports said several buildings were damaged and at least four people were killed and some 100 were injured during the quake. Teams are trying to rescue people inside the buildings. Some bridges and roads are damaged and the main road to Hualien is closed. More than 100 earthquakes have hit off Taiwan's east coast in the past three days. The Seismological Observation Center said they are cuased by the friction between the Philipine Plate and Eurasian Plate. <em>EPA</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class="-amp-slide-item slide"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-outer"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-inner"><amp-ad width="300" height="255" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent_amp/in_news_amp/in_world_amp/in_americas_amp/in_americas_article_amp" json='{"targeting":{"tile":"mpu5","pagetype":"amp"}}'></amp-ad><div class="ad-caption"><h3>Swipe to continue</h3></div></div></div></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/06/19/world-news.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="6 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>6 February 2018</h3>Anti-North Korean protesters push against police as a ferry carrying a North Korean art troupe for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games approaches the port of Mukho in Donghae. Around 120 North Korean art performers in matching red coats and fur hats left for the South, its state media said on February 6, the latest in the flurry of cross-border exchanges in the run-up to the Pyeongchang Olympics. <em>AFP/Getty</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/05/12/eagles-football.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="5 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>5 February 2018</h3>Philadelphia Eagles' Nick Foles celebrates with the Vince Lombardi Trophy after winning Super Bowl LII. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/04/14/us-train-crash-0.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="4 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>4 February 2018</h3>Authorities investigate the scene of a fatal Amtrak train crash in Cayce, South Carolina. At least two were killed and dozens injured. <em>The State via AP</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/03/18/pictures-of-the-day-3.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="3 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>3 February 2018</h3>Members of security services react as a man in the crowd tries to shake hands with French President Emmanuel Macron, who walks next to Senegalese President Macky Sall in a street of Saint-Louis, Senegal. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/02/17/pictures-of-the-day-3.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="2 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>2 February 2018</h3>County Sheriffs restrain Randall Margraves, the father of three daughters who were abused by Larry Nassar, after he tried to attack the former team USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty in November 2017 to sexual assault charges, during victim statements of his sentencing in the Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Michigan. <em>REUTERS</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class="-amp-slide-item slide"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-outer"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-inner"><amp-ad width="300" height="255" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent_amp/in_news_amp/in_world_amp/in_americas_amp/in_americas_article_amp" json='{"targeting":{"tile":"mpu5","pagetype":"amp"}}'></amp-ad><div class="ad-caption"><h3>Swipe to continue</h3></div></div></div></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/01/18/pictures-of-the-day.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="1 February 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>1 February 2018</h3>Abu Rabih, 65, walks through the rubble with his eight-year-old grandson Yahya following air strikes by regime forces which hit the building where they live in Arbin, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. Arbin is in the Eastern Ghouta region which has been under government siege since 2013. <em>AFP/Getty Images</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/31/15/super-moon-5.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="31 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>31 January 2018</h3>A 'Supermoon' shines its blood red colors during a full eclipse above the Big A Sign of Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. A 'Supermoon' commonly is described as a full moon at its closest distance to the earth with the moon appearing larger and brighter than usual. <em>EPA</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/30/15/kenya-mask.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="30 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>30 January 2018</h3>A man wears a mask among fellow supporters as Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga (not pictured) takes a symbolic presidential oath of office in Nairobi. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/29/14/eu-tractors-farmers.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="29 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>29 January 2018</h3>Tractors are parked outside a meeting of European Union agriculture ministers during a protest by Belgian farmers in Brussels. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/29/04/grammys-best-moments29.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="28 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>28 January 2018</h3>Bruno Mars accepts Record of the Year for '24K Magic' with his production team onstage during the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York. <em>Getty Images for NARAS</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class="-amp-slide-item slide"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-outer"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-inner"><amp-ad width="300" height="255" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent_amp/in_news_amp/in_world_amp/in_americas_amp/in_americas_article_amp" json='{"targeting":{"tile":"mpu5","pagetype":"amp"}}'></amp-ad><div class="ad-caption"><h3>Swipe to continue</h3></div></div></div></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/29/10/cuba-independence.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="27 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>27 January 2018</h3>Students with torches gather prior to a march in celebration of the 165th birth anniversary of Cuba's independence hero Jose Marti, in Havana. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/26/17/korea-fire.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="26 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>26 January 2018</h3>A firefighter inspects a burnt hospital after a fire in Miryang, South Korea. 37 people were killed in the fire, with the number of casualties likely to rise further. <em>Kyungnam Shinmun via Getty</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/25/08/milan-train-crash-01.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="25 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>25 January 2018</h3>Rescue workers and police officers stand near derailed trains in Pioltello, on the outskirts of Milan. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/24/10/afghan-police.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="24 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>24 January 2018</h3>Afghan police officers take position during a blast and gun fire in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/23/16/pictures-of-the-day-4.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="23 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>23 January 2018</h3>Workers clean the beach of the coastal town of Zouk Mosbeh, north of Beirut, as garbage washed up and piled along the shore after stormy weather. <em>AFP/Getty</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class="-amp-slide-item slide"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-outer"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-inner"><amp-ad width="300" height="255" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent_amp/in_news_amp/in_world_amp/in_americas_amp/in_americas_article_amp" json='{"targeting":{"tile":"mpu5","pagetype":"amp"}}'></amp-ad><div class="ad-caption"><h3>Swipe to continue</h3></div></div></div></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/22/15/turkey-troops.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="22 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>22 January 2018</h3>A Free Syrian Army soldier takes a selfie as fighters join up with Turkish troops near the Syrian border at Hassa, Hatay province. Turkey shelled Kurdish militia targets in Syria and claimed progress in a cross-border offensive that has stoked concern among its allies and neighbours.</div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/21/19/palestine-aid-cut.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="21 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>21 January 2018</h3>Palestinians take part in a protest against aid cut, outside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) office, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/20/17/womens-march-5.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="20 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>20 January 2018</h3>Oscar Janicki, 6, participates in the Second Annual Women's March in Philadelphia. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/19/09/putin-ice-dip-1.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="19 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>19 January 2018</h3>Russian President Vladimir Putin bathes in an ice-cold water on Epiphany near St. Nilus Stolobensky Monastery on Lake Seliger in Svetlitsa village, Russia. Thousands of Russian Orthodox Church followers will plunge into icy rivers and ponds across the country to mark Epiphany, cleansing themselves with water deemed holy for the day. <em>Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/18/18/world-news.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="18 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>18 January 2018</h3>People protest to call for a new DREAM Act to replace DACA in Los Angeles, California. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class="-amp-slide-item slide"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-outer"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-inner"><amp-ad width="300" height="255" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent_amp/in_news_amp/in_world_amp/in_americas_amp/in_americas_article_amp" json='{"targeting":{"tile":"mpu5","pagetype":"amp"}}'></amp-ad><div class="ad-caption"><h3>Swipe to continue</h3></div></div></div></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/17/14/wong-hong-kong.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="17 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>17 January 2018</h3>Pro-democracy activists Raphael Wong and Joshua Wong arrive at Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre after they were jailed on protest related charges following their sentencing at the High Court in Hong Kong. <em>AFP/Getty</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/16/13/skyscrapers-china.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="16 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>16 January 2018</h3>Skyscrapers Oriental Pearl Tower and Jin Mao Tower (L) are seen from the Shanghai World Financial Center on a hazy day in the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/16/11/martin-luther-king.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="15 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>15 January 2018</h3>Martin Luther King III, US Secretary of the Interior and others wait to place a wreath during an event at the Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall. <em>AFP/Getty</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/15/11/world-1-0.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="14 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>14 January 2018</h3>A boy stands with women loyal to the Houthi movement during a gathering held to show their support to the movement in Sanaa, Yemen. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/15/11/world-2.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="13 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>13 January 2018</h3>Diego Martin Duplessis of Argentina drives his Honda during the 2018 Peru-Bolivia-Argentina Dakar rally, 40th edition stage seven, La Paz to Uyuni. <em>Reuters</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class="-amp-slide-item slide"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-outer"><div class="gallery-amp-ad-inner"><amp-ad width="300" height="255" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent_amp/in_news_amp/in_world_amp/in_americas_amp/in_americas_article_amp" json='{"targeting":{"tile":"mpu5","pagetype":"amp"}}'></amp-ad><div class="ad-caption"><h3>Swipe to continue</h3></div></div></div></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/12/17/picture-of-the-day-2-0.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="12 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>12 January 2018</h3>Angela Merkel speaks during a joint press conference after exploratory talks in Berlin. According to reports, the leaders of CDU, CSU and SPD parties after night-long talks agreed on a plan for formal coalition negotiations. <em>EPA</em></div></amp-fit-text></div> <div class=" slide"><amp-img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2018/01/11/18/pictures-of-the-day-5.jpg" height="400" width="566" layout="responsive" title="11 January 2018"></amp-img><amp-fit-text layout="responsive" class="amp-text-class" height="250" width="566"><div class="caption"><h3>11 January 2018</h3>A Pakistani girl holds a picture of Zainab Ansari, an 8-year-old girl who was raped and kidnapped in Kasur, during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan. Anees Ansari, Zainab's father, accused the police of being slow to respond when his daughter went missing in the eastern Punjab province. 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	<p>When she got there he said that she was also sent away because there were rumours she was a lesbian, reportedly saying &ldquo;We can't let you represent our church, as being a lesbian is a sin&rdquo;.</p>

	<p>He then reportedly invited her and her partner to come to the Sunday service at the church.</p>

	<p>Pastor Hindt later posted an apology on the church&rsquo;s Facebook page which has since been deleted.</p>

	<div class="inline-block inline-block-related-single inline-block-left" data-nid="/news/world/americas/waitress-lgbt-tattoo-no-tip-buffalo-wild-wings-rockford-illinois-gay-jesus-customers-a7894826.html"><a href="/news/world/americas/waitress-lgbt-tattoo-no-tip-buffalo-wild-wings-rockford-illinois-gay-jesus-customers-a7894826.html"><!--broken image--><div class="capsules"> <ul><li> <div class="label context-capsule">Read more</div> </li> </ul></div> <div class="content"> <h2>Restaurant customers refuse to tip waitress because of her LGBT tattoo</h2> </div> </a></div> <p>It said: &ldquo;Recently, a resident of the community volunteered to serve with us and we wholeheartedly accepted her assistance.</p>

	<amp-ad width="300" height="1" class="ad-center" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent_amp/in_news_amp/in_world_amp/in_americas_amp/in_americas_article_amp" data-use-same-domain-rendering-until-deprecated="" layout="responsive" json='{"targeting":{"tile":"teadsib","pagetype":"amp"}}'></amp-ad><p>&ldquo;Unfortunately, we&rsquo;re saddened by an incident involving some miscommunication that took place off campus in an exchange between various community volunteers at the church&rsquo;s food pantry.</p>

	<p>&ldquo;I met with the individual who was upset and apologised for the misunderstanding. (I apologise once again if you are reading this.) I invited her and her partner to sit with my wife and I in church this Sunday.&rdquo;</p>

	<p><em>The Independent</em> has contacted Calvary Houston for comment.</p>
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