On Sept. 19, Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham was in Avshalom, Israel, on the Gaza border, to donate two armored ambulances to Magen David Adom (MDA), the nation’s emergency services system. These vehicles were given in memory of three individuals killed by Hamas. Members of the bereaved families of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken hostage…
Team Patriot
Buenas Nuevas y Gran Gozo para los niños alrededor del mundo
The summer of 1993, Franklin Graham received a call from England asking if he would fill shoeboxes with gifts for kids in war-torn Eastern Europe. Familiar with the suffering there from his recent visits to the region, Franklin agreed. Around Thanksgiving, his office received another call from England asking about the gifts. Franklin remembered the…
Estudiantes de Wheaton College participan con Operation Christmas Child en Ecuador
Students from Wheaton College traveled to Ecuador in December with Operation Christmas Child, coming alongside the local church to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ and joining in the joy as children pealed open their one-of-a-kind shoebox gifts. Samaritan’s Purse has long worked in Ecuador, first delivering gift-filled shoeboxes there in 1997 and in…
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…
Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Responds in Israel
Emergency Field Hospital Opens in Southern California
Updated Jan. 16: Our Emergency Field Hospital has opened in Lancaster and our medical team is treating patients. We expect a steady influx of patients to arrive over the next several days. — Jan. 13: Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham traveled to Los Angeles County to see final preparations before our Emergency Field Hospital opens.…
Samaritan’s Purse Completes Work at Lenoir Field Hospital
Top healthcare executives from the region joined the Samaritan’s Purse team on Feb. 3 to honor the work accomplished during the deployment of our Emergency Field Hospital in Lenoir, North Carolina. Since Jan. 7, we operated a mobile respiratory care unit to assist six regional healthcare systems from a central location at Caldwell UNC Health…
Israel Response Photos
¡Hoy! Por favor ora por el pueblo de Afganistán
Thousands of people, including up to 15,000 Americans, are desperately trying to escape from Afghanistan after the country’s fall to the Taliban. With the Taliban blocking access to the airport and all exit routes, this is a life-or-death situation for Christians and other religious minorities, and all those who worked with or for America over…









