Edward Graham addressed Ukraine National Prayer Breakfast attendees August 25, reminding the gathering of God’s love and care “for the people of Ukraine.” The event was modeled after the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast that his grandfather, Billy Graham, helped to establish. Drawing from the account in Luke 23 of the thief crucified near Jesus Christ,…
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Newsletter October 2025
Franklin Graham Update | October Franklin Graham Update | October As Peace Dawns in Gaza, More Help Is on the Way Dear Friend, As I write this, the world is celebrating the release of the last Israeli hostages as part of a ceasefire deal announced by President Trump between Hamas and Israel. The historic peace plan is also great news for nearly 2…
Operation Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child Is Bringing the Hope of the Gospel to 1,000 Pacific Islands
Rengesuul Yobech sat in the shade of a spacious open-air gymnasium at Peleliu Elementary School in Palau on a sweltering late-February afternoon earlier in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe. The school’s 76 students were assembled there, eager to receive gift-filled shoeboxes at the first Operation Christmas Child festive outreach event to take…
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Samaritan’s Purse Transports Lion and Tiger from Typhoon-Ravaged Saipan to Wildlife Sanctuary
In the aftermath of powerful Typhoon Yutu, Samaritan’s Purse has airlifted more than 80 tons of relief supplies to help more than 6,000 households on the Pacific islands of Saipan and Tinian. Our DC-8 cargo plane has transported emergency shelter tarps, generators, solar lights, and water filtration units to families in desperate need after the…
Operation Christmas Child
Celebrating 200 Million Blessings
Elizabeth Groff is on a special journey to help pack the 200 millionth Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift since the Samaritan’s Purse project began in 1993. Elizabeth, who received a shoebox gift years ago as a lonely child in an orphanage in Ukraine, is currently traveling to different U.S. drop-off locations and processing centers with…
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Soddo Christian Hospital, Soddo, Ethiopia
Soddo Christian Hospital Soddo, Ethiopia Get Started Hospital Website www.soddo.org Mission Organization Sponsored by the St. Luke's Healthcare Foundation Profile Soddo Christian Hospital is a 133-bed facility located in a mountainous region with beautiful weather. There are four wards: surgical, maternity, medicine/pediatrics, and orthopedic. Long-term expatriate staff include a general surgeon, an orthopedic surgeon, a…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse Responding to Refugee Crisis in Europe
Hundreds of thousands of refugees desperate to start new lives in the West have rapidly streamed through Europe this year, overwhelming certain nations along their path. It is the largest crisis of its kind in the region since the Second World War. Many of these men, women, and children are in a mad scramble to…
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Typhoon Haiyan: Two Years Later
The Vicious Storm On November 8, 2013, at 4:40 am, Typhoon Haiyan made its first of six landfalls over Samar island in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, with a relentless force of destruction as one of the largest, most powerful Pacific hurricanes on record. The vicious storm battered Samar and Leyte islands. Residents…
Crisis & Disaster Response
An Unsettling Frontier
Bahark had heard the sound of bulldozers before. When she heard that sound in Idomeni camp she knew it meant that she, her husband, and her daughter soon would be moving again. They had been smuggled into Greece on a rubber raft a few months ago and arrived in this northernmost Greek region only days…
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Samaritan’s Purse – Give a Year-End Gift
Give a Year-End Gift Where Most Needed Where Most Needed - 012000 $ Give We Help in Jesus' Name SAMARITAN'S PURSE BRINGS PHYSICAL RELIEF AND HOPE TO HURTING PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. Samaritan's Purse helps men, women, and children who are victims of war, poverty, disaster, and famine. We work in more than 100 countries,…
