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…
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Edward Graham Interviewed on Fox News About Hurricane Dorian Response
Watch as Edward Graham, son of Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham, discusses the Samaritan’s Purse response to Hurricane Dorian, including wounded veterans ready to serve through Team Patriot. Team Patriot is a Samaritan’s Purse program that provides disaster relief and rebuild volunteer opportunities to the wounded veterans and their spouses who are part of our…
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Passing the Torch of the Good Samaritan; Franklin Graham Elected President
Bob Pierce died Sept. 6, 1978, at age 64. In October 1979, the board of Samaritan’s Purse elected 27-year-old Franklin Graham to take over as president and chairman of the board. As leukemia took its toll on Bob Pierce, Franklin Graham asked him for his vision for the future of Samaritan’s Purse. “Let’s start with…
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Franklin Graham’s Message for Memorial Day
This weekend our country honors the men and women who bravely served our nation and paid the ultimate price, shedding their blood and giving their lives for our freedom… Watch the video message above from Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
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Franklin Graham en una exitosa operación de corazón
A special note from Franklin Graham: Yesterday I underwent a specialized heart surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I had developed constrictive pericarditis, which is inflammation and hardening of the sac around the heart that compresses the heart and prevents it from working properly. The surgery involved removing the pericardium, and we thank God…
Edward Graham viaja a las comunidades devastadas por el huracán en Florida
Edward Graham visited southwest Florida Tuesday where Samaritan’s Purse volunteers are working in flooded and wind-damaged communities ripped apart last week by Hurricane Ian. The powerful and deadly Category 4 storm claimed more than 100 lives and damaged thousands of structures, including hundreds of homes, on its destructive path traveling up the coast and across…
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Historia
Note: In 2020, we celebrated 50 years of what God has done through Samaritan's Purse. Check out our 50th anniversary web page for stories and videos. -- "Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God." Bob Pierce wrote these now-famous words in his Bible after visiting suffering children on the…
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Samaritan’s Purse Volunteers at Work in Storm-Torn Southeast
Samaritan’s Purse teams are on the ground in Selma, Alabama, and Griffin, Georgia, after a violent and deadly storm system swept across the Southeast on Thursday night, Jan. 12. Two Disaster Relief Units—tractor trailers stocked with equipment and supplies—are in position in the two locations. Volunteers started work in both Alabama and Georgia on Sunday,…
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Los voluntarios trabajan duro después de las tormentas del Medio Oeste
Jenny Leiter was, at first, mesmerized by the approaching storm the evening of March 14. She said the roiling clouds and the streaks of lightning made for a spectacular show across the expanse of farm fields surrounding Lakeview, Ohio. “It was really quite beautiful,” she said. But then it turned terrifying, as tornado sirens started…
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Llevamos ayuda y esperanza después de Helene
Bringing Help and Hope After Helene “I've never experienced God's love like that.” Hurricane Helene turned the Cane River, usually about 40 feet wide, into a raging, swollen behemoth that swallowed houses, cars, utility poles, and huge chunks of land on both sides of its gluttonous path as it charged downstream. But when the storm swept through…
