A post is going viral claiming that Netflix is removing all Christian movies from its streaming platform.
“NETFLIX IS NO LONGER SHOWING CHRISTIAN MOVIES AFTER MARCH 31”, reads the Facebook post.
Another post can be found here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above posts and found them to be false.
Firstly, we ran a simple Google search using keywords–‘Christian’, ‘Netflix movies’. The search results lead us to several faith-based movies. “The Young Messiah”, “A Week Away”, “The Healer”, “Miracles From Heaven” and many other movies that were available on Netflix.
In the comments section, we found an article by Inquisitr that stated “Christians and others can relax, because Netflix isn’t planning to remove all of their Christian content. The “Faith & Spirituality” section of Netflix is alive and well, with movies like The Passion of the Christ, Say Amen, Son of God, The Bible, The Gospel of John, and many more that aren’t likely to depart from Netflix anytime soon despite the rumor spreading that claimed all mentions of Christ and Christianity would be done away with on Netflix.”
Further in the article, we found this tweet:
NEWS! Netflix to remove all Christian content after complaints from Muslims https://t.co/6f985RZOeU pic.twitter.com/F5ZCd5AXJ0
— NewsThump (@newsthump) March 29, 2016
We scanned through NewsThump‘s official Twitter handle and found that it’s a satirical page from the UK.
Further, we also called the Netflix customer care via phone and got a confirmation that it has not removed Christian movies from its online streaming platform.
Hence, from the above information, it is clear that the claim is false.
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