Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham held a special call-in prayer conference today to put a spotlight on the crisis in Venezuela. About 3 million Venezuelans have fled the desperate situation in recent years and millions more remain in the country facing dire shortages of food and medicine. Samaritan’s Purse is actively helping to meet the…
Ayuda para los venezolanos en crisis
Helping in the Wake of Australian Bushfires
Record-breaking high temperatures, strong winds, and years of drought have stirred intense wildfires Down Under, killing at least 30 people across the country, destroying more than 2,200 homes, and scorching more than 20 million acres of land. The fires began in September and have spread across 131 regions of Australia. Over the past week Samaritan’s…
COVID-19 Response
Rachel’s House and HIV/AIDS Ministry
As we deal with the coronavirus pandemic, it’s easy to forget that a generation ago the world faced another virus that killed 32 million people. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) caused a ghastly disease called AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) that left 17 million as orphans. Though it was often spread by sexual misbehavior, others were infected…
Rebuilding Homes for 5,000 Families After Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch was the worst storm of the 20th century in the western hemisphere, killing over 11,000 people in Honduras and Nicaragua in 1998. The late-October storm destroyed or damaged more than 80,000 houses in Honduras. Samaritan’s Purse launched the largest construction project in our history and in the four years following the storm, we…
Delivering Christmas to Children in Uganda
In late 2002, Franklin Graham gathered with musician Bono (of U2) and the Brooklyn Tabernacle Youth Choir at New York’s JFK International Airport for a special send-off. More than 80,000 Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts were loaded onto an Antonov 225, the world’s largest cargo jet at the time, to be transported to Ugandan children…
Reto de discipulado de 72 horas
International Disaster Relief Photos
Bold Vision for the Pacific
Franklin Graham’s bold vision to deliver gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes in Jesus’ Name to every child on 1,000 Pacific islands—more than half a million kids—began in early 2019 and will continue until every child is reached. “I want to reach these islands for Christ,” Graham said when he visited the island nation of Kiribati…










