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Israel Response Photos
Israel Response These photographs are available for news media outlet use in coverage of Samaritan's Purse-related stories. If your news outlet uses a photograph, please credit: "Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse." These photographs are not for commercial use. Israel, 2023 Franklin Graham meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Download Israel, 2023 Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan's…
Crisis & Disaster Response
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.…
Crisis & Disaster Response
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…
Franklin Graham
Newsletter April 2025
Alert: Samaritan's Purse is rushing life-saving relief, including an Emergency Field Hospital, to Myanmar after a deadly earthquake. Give Read More Franklin Graham Update | February Franklin Graham Update | April State-of-the-Heart Care in Africa Dear Friend, I recently visited Tenwek Hospital in Kenya and met patients and staff at their brand-new cardiothoracic center built largely by Samaritan's Purse. Tenwek does more than half of…
Our Ministry
Today! Please Pray for the People of Afghanistan
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…
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Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Responds in Israel
Released by Magen David Adom. Samaritan's Purse sponsors 21 ambulances, seven of them armored, for Magen David Adom, Israel's medical emergency system The vehicles will replace MDA ambulances destroyed by Hamas and put additional lifesaving vehicles into service Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel (November 15, 2023)—Standing Tuesday amid the ruined homes of Kibbutz Be’eri, where 100 residents…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Armored Ambulances Provided to Magen David Adom
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…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders Serves with Samaritan’s Purse in Arkansas
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders helped homeowners in Benton County by serving alongside Samaritan’s Purse on June 2. The county is reeling after seven tornadoes hit the area on May 26, ranging in intensity from EF1 to EF3. “It’s amazing to have an organization like this show up in Arkansas, bring their resources, their time,…
Construction Projects
First Home Dedicated as Samaritan’s Purse Rebuilds in Mayfield
Nine months ago, on the evening of Dec. 10, 2021, Tom Woodward sat in his single-wide mobile home, listening to the news about an EF4 Tornado that had set its target on Mayfield, Kentucky. “My son called me and said ‘Are you gonna stay and ride it out or are you gonna come over here…
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Samaritan’s Purse Delivers First Mobile Homes to Mississippi Tornado Survivors
Samaritan's Purse Delivers First Mobile Homes to Mississippi Tornado Survivors Franklin Graham is coming to Amory to dedicate upgraded mobile homes that are being given to hard-hit families BOONE, N.C., May 16, 2023—Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian relief organization, is offering a mobile home replacement program for Mississippi families who lost everything in the March 24 tornado.…
