Families in Japan are still struggling to recover weeks after a powerful typhoon hit Tokyo and areas southwest of the capital. Typhoon Hagibis killed nearly 100 people and displaced thousands due to flooding. Samaritan’s Purse is working with local partners to help bring much needed relief to storm victims. Our partners are organizing volunteer teams…
Samaritan’s Purse Helps Those Affected by Flooding in Japan
Cleaning Out Flooded Houses in Japan
When a pastor went to help clean a flooded house in Kure, Japan, he was overwhelmed not only by the scope of the devastation but also by the hostility of the man who lived there. The man wanted nothing to do with religion and didn’t even want the pastor spending time at his home. Feeling…
After Deadly Flooding in Japan, Response Team Helps Churches Mobilize Volunteers
Samaritan’s Purse has a disaster assistance response team (DART) in western Japan responding to the deadly floods. We are coming alongside local churches to help them as they assist hurting homeowners. Several of our staff have long-term experience in Japan, working with Samaritan’s Purse since the Asian nation was devastated by a terrible earthquake and…
Terremoto fatal en Nepal provoca una respuesta masiva
On April 25, 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the central region of Nepal and affected more than 8 million people—almost one-third of the country’s population—damaging or destroying more than 500,000 homes. A second earthquake hit about two weeks later, triggering landslides and creating a new wave of fear and panic among Nepalis, many of whom…
Franklin Graham entrega cajas en Saipán y Guam
Feb. 22-23 UPDATE Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham and his wife Jane, along with musical artist Michael W. Smith, traveled to Guam on Saturday, Feb. 22, to help hand out gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes at Life in the Son Christian Fellowship in Tamuning. The day before the trio assisted in distributing shoeboxes on nearby…
Ayuda para desastres en camino para Tonga después de la erupción volcánica
Many people are still in need after an underwater volcano erupted and triggered a subsequent tsunami in Tonga. The waves caused significant damage, reaching nearly four feet on Tonga’s largest island of Tongatapu and flooding many homes and roads. A massive volcanic ash cloud also covered island communities for days, contaminating water and food supplies.…
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Disaster Assistance Response Team
Volunteers Help Hard-Hit Military Families in North Carolina
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER FOR OUR HURRICANE RESPONSES When Jeremy and Kristy Kulberg saw on social media that people in their flooded New Bern, North Carolina, neighborhood were being rescued from rooftops, their hearts sank. That could only mean that their own house was under at least five feet of water. Jeremy and Kristy had…
La familia Graham participa en el despegue de Operation Christmas Child en el Pacífico
Franklin Graham presented a bold vision to the Operation Christmas Child team late last year (2018): Deliver gift-filled shoeboxes in Jesus’ Name to every child on 1,000 Pacific islands—more than half a million kids. He believed those island nations and the children who live on them had been forgotten, but he was determined that would…